Eastern Meadowlark
Dacha bird #145 flew over yesterday: eastern meadowlark.
John James Audubon
Well worth a read!! Audubon Magazine article
Bat
After all the record cold, I was amazed to see a bat at dusk tonight in Hyde park!!
Hooded Merganser
A pair of Dacha Species #144 were floating in the river when I got home today, but then they took flight pretty quickly when they saw me ….. any guesses as to their identity?? View in group
Patagonia Picnic Table Effect
Good discussion, but not sure I’m buying their methodology. Patagonia Picnic Table Effect
Owl ?
Ok, here’s where birding gets tantalizing (?) frustrating (?)…….again!! We were just out on a snow walk in garland near a wooded creek. I heard an owl. I heard it twice give 3 note, medium pitched hoots — lower pitched than Saw Whet, and Northern pygmy, higher pitched than Long eared — not screech, not…
Gull Crazy
They say you have to be crazy to get into gulls……………I didn’t last long, so still mostly sane!
Gulls Lake Ray Hubbard
Well I’ve been out gulling most days this week. Staying at my sister’s who lives near a favorite gull location on Lake Ray Hubbard. I’ve been looking for, and thought I’d found, variously Iceland gull (Thayers), California Gull, and today a great black backed gull. After review of bad digiscoped-through-the-fog-in-the-chill-breeze pix and videos and consultation…
Know your Birdsong
It pays to know your birdsong!! Thanks for sending Flo!! https://www.theguardian.com/…/ecuador-bird-fake-video… Maybe they’ll ask me to identify grackles for the impeachment hearings.
Greg Lasley
If you want to understand better how to be a great naturalist, you can find no better example than Greg Lasley. I only met him once, but he was a good friend of my grandfather’s, so I had heard of him by the late 70s. When I met him in 2008 he recited my grandfather’s…