Airport Observations

Today gave me reason to consider the baseline level of effort I want to give to the big year project. With work calls and other work tasks to take care of, I didn’t have as much time outside, and with winter’s short days, that did not leave a lot of daylight for observations. I considered … Read more

Good Birds and a Green Flash

My parents were scheduled to leave midday flight, so this morning was taken up with tasks around the house before taking them to the airport. After saying goodbye to them, Connor decided to look around for a while along old airport road in hopes of finding a Northern Shrike that had been reported as being … Read more

New Year’s Day CBC

2017 got off to a clear start here in Sitka. I got up relatively early to go count birds for the annual Christmas Bird Count. This year I was participated by counting birds on the water (via boat with Kitty L.) and one of the residential islands near town.  Although it was an excellent day … Read more