On a Lifelong Journey to Learn my Place
I was outside today and noticed a sizable flock of small birds that I was not able to identify moving from alder to alder. They would flit about in the tops of the trees, but I was not sure what they might have been finding there. A little later I happened to walk back toward … Read more
Saw a flock of robins on campus today. Looked like there 20 or 30 of them. I do not remember seeing any robins at all last winter. These are the first robins I have seen since summer. I wonder if they are migrating through or will be resident in the area this winter.
It seems like it has been drier than normal all year, but this October has really been atypical. Certainly there have been some hard rains, but there have also been many clear sunny days. So far there has been just over 3 inches of rain this month. The average rainfall for October is over 13 … Read more
As we were walking on Saturday, we saw a fairly large flock of geese fly overhead. Later that night I heard more. Sunday evening we saw three geese feeding on a lawn near McDonalds. It was too dark to tell for sure, but I think they were Canadian geese.
Melissa said that today’s weather was fitting for the first day of fall. The wind was blowing and a cold rain was falling. Over the weekend some of the taller peaks had fresh snow on them. It appeared that the snow level was around 4600 feet. By yesterday the snow level had dropped to around … Read more
It seemed like for most of the summer the small song birds were fairly quiet around the neighborhood. I have noticed that in the last couple of weeks I am hearing more calls from these birds again. My brother suggested that perhaps they were quiet while raising young and now they are out and about … Read more