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| Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia |
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| Downy Woodpecker Picoides pubescens |
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| Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis |
Birding at my local NDG spot continues, post-Greece.
October 25
Cloudy and 5 degrees – it was ‘see my breath/neckwarmer and gloves’ weather for sure.
When I turned on my camera, I found that the battery was dead. I swapped the battery out for my backup, and found that one was also dead. So I put one battery in my glove, and the other one in a pocket near my armpit, and 20 minutes later, both had enough charge to get me through the walk. Try it out in an emergency!
-16 species in 90 minutes
-130 Dark-eyed Junco
-12 White-throated Sparrow
-2 Hermit Thrush
-1 Winter Wren
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Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis
Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina |
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| Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia |
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| Cooper’s Hawk Accipiter cooperii |
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| Eastern Cottontail Sylvilagus floridanus |
November 1
Early into the walk I flushed a mid-sized brownish bird from the ground, in a park-like area with bushes. It zipped around a corner and disappeared. It gave rounded Woodcock vibes, rather than pointy Flicker vibes, if that makes any sense. I didn’t hear anything when it flushed, as I was stood under a windy pine at the time. I don’t have American Woodcock on my site list, so it’s too bad I didn’t get a solid ID. The area seems like a highly suitable spot for migrating Woodcocks, so I’m kind of surprised (insulted?) that I haven’t encountered one there yet. Gotta save something for next March I guess.
-5 degrees, windy and cloudy
-12 species in 90 minutes
-13 Dark-eyed Juncos
-1 Chipping Sparrow
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| Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis |
November 8
With a big dump of snow coming the next day, I was hoping for some ‘weird’ bird action, but there was nothing out of place.
-10 species in 90 minutes
-9 and sunny and quite windy
-A single showy Golden-crowned Kinglet
-Junco numbers at about 25
-No woodpeckers
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| American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos |
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| Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis |
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| Black-capped Chickadee Poecile atricapillus |
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Zoof!
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| Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis |
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| Brown Creeper Certhia Americana |
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| Current mood |
November 15
-15 species in 90 minutes
-Sunny and -4 (a tuque-->ballcap--->tuque--->ballcap kind of day)
-Heavy snow came on November 9-11 and has stuck around. More inbound.
-Felt birdy!
-Two skeins of Canada Goose overhead
-A European Starling doing a Ruby-crowned Kinglet impression got a confused giggle out of me.
-A Northern Flicker lurked.
-Around the edges, a dozen Dark-eyed Juncos.
-The local crew of Black-capped Chickadees was very active.
-A Brown Creeper…crept.
-Several American Goldfinch heard overflying, but still no signs of the other spicier finches being seen at the cems in this irruption year (A Korean birder once told me “There are many spices of Bunting today.” – I love ‘spices’ instead of ‘species,’ and will be using it from now on).
