An Aspiring Naturalist Learns His Place
I’ve long noticed that several kinds of birds stick their head forward when walking. (When I’ve tried to imitate a chicken or pigeon walking I would put my elbows back and stick my head forward before each step.) What I did not notice until this year was just how steady the head stays as the … Read more
In 2020 I never was more than 20 miles from my house, and only travelled more than 15 miles away once. Within this space and time, I observed at least 155 species (based on ebird checklists), and was able to get photographs of 145 species, plus an additional 3 hybrids. These included three species (and … Read more
Today was the first that could reasonably be described as sunny in quite some time. Temperatures were near freezing this morning (there was ice on the windshield under a thin layer of snow, and the UAS parking lot was frozen), but the sun had warmed things up a bit by midmorning. This afternoon I went … Read more
Over the past two or three weeks, I’ve been heading out the road to see if I could see the Gray-crowned Rosy-Finches that have been reported periodically. So far I had not had any success, but when I heard from KJ they were out there again late this morning, I didn’t wait too long to … Read more
Temperatures warmed overnight, and it was raining this morning this morning when I got up. As I left a little before 9:30 to head down to the harbor, a state DOT worker was shoveling a path along the pile of snow on the side of he road. Without a clear path for water to flow, … Read more
Although the thermometer on the car said it was only 38F when I left the house for Crescent Harbor this morning, it felt fairly warm. The forecast called for wind and rain, but that seemed to stay off-shore, as it was no worse than a little breezy during the 8+ hours I was down at … Read more