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| Brown Creeper Certhia americana (March 21) |
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| Northern Parula Setophaga americana (May 9) |
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| Mallard Anas platyrhynchos (March 21) |
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| Northern Raccoon Procyon lotor (March 21) |
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| Woodchuck/Groundhog/Marmotte/Siffleur Marmota monax (Matrch 21) |
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| Eastern Chipmunk Tamias striatus (March 21) |
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| Harry doing what Harrys do |
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| March 17 |
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| Dan getting dissolved (March 28) |
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| April 5 |
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| A skirmish line of twitchers dipping on a Louisiana Waterthrush (April 5) |
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| Little Lord Horror’boi |
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| A house, 100% haunted |
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| Coffee stashed in the camera bag, the only way to go |
Not every one of my bird trips ends up being blogged. Sometimes I get backlogged (backblogged?), sometimes I forget, and sometimes I just can’t be arsed spending the time to blog, especially when the birding was slow. Here’s a quick compilation of a few such trips to the cems over the past few months.
-March 17: 10 degrees and sunny in the snow, 16 species.
-March 21: 10 degrees and rainy…20 species…many mammals. Lovely Brown Creepers at close range.
-March 28: 4 degrees, rainy as feck, 9 species…”How rainy can it get?” I laughed. We dissolved.
-April 5: 5 degrees and mixed weather…23 species…dipped on a one-day-wonder Louisiana Waterthrush at 7:45am after an all-nighter…if you’re not tryin’ you’re dyin’.
-May 9: Painfully quiet for the time of year…27 species but it felt like less than that. On the warbler front, we ended up with only one each of Black-and-white Warbler and (a last minute) Northern Parula, and we had to dig hard to find those. Plenty of ‘fool’s warblers’ (kinglets) around though. I guess it was one of those “The wind taketh away” kinda days. What else…Saw an Osprey...and a singing female Purple Finch that initially had us conundrummed.
-March 21: 10 degrees and rainy…20 species…many mammals. Lovely Brown Creepers at close range.
-March 28: 4 degrees, rainy as feck, 9 species…”How rainy can it get?” I laughed. We dissolved.
-April 5: 5 degrees and mixed weather…23 species…dipped on a one-day-wonder Louisiana Waterthrush at 7:45am after an all-nighter…if you’re not tryin’ you’re dyin’.
-May 9: Painfully quiet for the time of year…27 species but it felt like less than that. On the warbler front, we ended up with only one each of Black-and-white Warbler and (a last minute) Northern Parula, and we had to dig hard to find those. Plenty of ‘fool’s warblers’ (kinglets) around though. I guess it was one of those “The wind taketh away” kinda days. What else…Saw an Osprey...and a singing female Purple Finch that initially had us conundrummed.
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