Dacha Bird #148
Just added bird 148 at The Dacha: Western Meadowlark. (Note: I don’t have a pix of Western, this one’s an Eastern).

Just added bird 148 at The Dacha: Western Meadowlark. (Note: I don’t have a pix of Western, this one’s an Eastern).

Speaking of sandpipers: here’s another one someone can ID.
Western bluebirds still on CR 207 1/2 mile from the dacha. Chased half heartedly by kestrel. 10-12 of them.
What???!!!!! Show me the money!!! Article in The Guardian
Finally, here are a couple of interesting feeding behaviors by Cattle and Snowy. (Cattle video is pretty dis-focused).
Interesting night on 9/18 for the night flight calls people back east (below from NFC listserv): “I’ve been listening live in Etna, NY tonight since 10:30pm. This has been an epic migration night here and one of the more constantly vocal in recent memory. Literally thousands and thousands of calls. Nearly constant calls of warblers,…
This guys been hanging around my place this winter. He was dacha bird #138. Am now up to 143. This is a digi-bin pix.