Caption as posted on the Blue Mug's Facebook page May 26, 2011: I am birding by ear today.
Caption on my personal Facebook page May 26, 2011: Birding by ear today.
Over the course of the last two days we have been birding in various spots; some near to home and some further. We explored a burn in the Stanley Basin looking for my second nemesis (second after Gyrfalcon or put another way, my spring and summer nemesis) the Black-backed Woodpecker. We didn’t find it. The next day we swooped through the Silver Creek Preserve and then dashed out to Magic Reservoir. At Magic we added FOY Common Loon, Say’s Phoebe, Spotted Sandpiper, and Sage Thrasher.
Photographs and more information about these two days of birding will be posted “relatively” soon. I say relatively because I have to get back out there birding! I am sure I will miss something spectacular if I stay here and write.
Meanwhile the seed and fruit feeders are being mobbed by: Evening Grosbeaks, Black-headed Grosbeaks, Western Tanagers, Bullock’s Orioles, Lazuli Buntings, Cassin’s Finch, and Pine Siskins. Magpies are dropping by, and so are Eurasian Collared-Doves, Red-winged Blackbirds, and unfortunately Brown-headed Cowbirds, and Starlings…sigh.
In the trees Ruby-crowned Kinglets, and Yellow and Yellow-rumped Warblers are sweeping through.
Blue Mug has been steadfastly holding yummy bird-friendly coffee for me on these adventures and has been learning about birding by ear.
It is all good! I hope your birding is great today and that the upcoming weekend will be filled with birds as well.
Kathleen
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