Monday, October 31, 2016
The Common Swift: Airborne for Months!
Common swifts are observed to not light or perch for up to 10 months of the year. http://www.morningticker.com/2016/10/this-bird-is-doing-something-that-is-astonishing-scientists/
Saturday, October 8, 2016
Saturday, October 1, 2016
Bewick's Wren
ID'ed a Bewick's Wren Friday Thursday morning. My first wren!
Was in the kitchen and glanced out the back storm door. Saw a strange little bird hop off it's perch on some lumber I have leaning there going toward the ground.
That's the territory of the blue-eyed cat! Out of concern for the risk-taking bird and curiosity as to what it was I went out. Bird flew to a branch while I fumbled with my Swift audubons that don't close-focus well. But I saw the bird! Tail poking up like the flag of an invading country, speckled along the side and spotty underneath.
When I first glimpsed the bird I thought it looked like a dark-eyed, slate gray junco. Did not see the white eye streak.
Most of my new bird IDs follow a double-take, corner of the eye glimpse.
Was in the kitchen and glanced out the back storm door. Saw a strange little bird hop off it's perch on some lumber I have leaning there going toward the ground.
That's the territory of the blue-eyed cat! Out of concern for the risk-taking bird and curiosity as to what it was I went out. Bird flew to a branch while I fumbled with my Swift audubons that don't close-focus well. But I saw the bird! Tail poking up like the flag of an invading country, speckled along the side and spotty underneath.
When I first glimpsed the bird I thought it looked like a dark-eyed, slate gray junco. Did not see the white eye streak.
Most of my new bird IDs follow a double-take, corner of the eye glimpse.
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