songbirds
Where: Hidden Oaks Nature Center When: 12:00pm Bird Species: tufted titmouse, Carolina wren, Carolina chickadee, house finch, dark-eyed junco, mourning dove, downy woodpecker, brown creeper, red-bellied woodpecker, white-breasted nuthatch, American crow, turkey vulture (flyover), northern flicker, pileated woodpecker Things I Thought About: * I cannot believe the
swamp friends
Where: Huntley Meadows Park When: around 3pm until sundown Bird Species: Carolina chickadee, northern cardinal, red-headed woodpecker, tufted titmouse, downy woodpecker, eastern bluebird, song sparrow, swamp sparrow, white-throated sparrow, northern mockingbird, Canada goose, mallard, northern shoveler, northern pintail, eastern towhee, great blue heron, fish crow. Heard but not
backyard birds
Where: the neighborhood When: 2:40pm Bird Species: house sparrow, northern mockingbird, house finch, European starling, American crow, northern cardinal, Cooper's hawks plural, American robin, blue jay, mourning dove Things I Thought About: * Bridgerton. I have been reading a series of romances set in the same era, and
woodpeckers
Where: the neighborhood When: 7:16am Bird Species: house sparrow, blue jay, American robin, northern cardinal, European starling, American crow, red-bellied woodpecker, downy woodpecker, dark-eyed junco, mourning dove, Cooper's hawk (flyover) Things I Thought About: * Cold, cold, cold, cold, cold. My face hurts in this cold.
backyard birds
Where: the neighborhood When: 7:43am Bird Species: house sparrow, blue jay, American robin, mourning dove, American crow, dark-eyed juncos, northern cardinal, European starling Things I Thought About: * How much we did NOT beat ass at trivia last night, despite getting all three parts of the music question right
backyard birds
Where: the neighborhood When: 11:20am Bird Species: blue jay, house sparrow, northern cardinal, northern mockingbird, American robin, Cooper's hawk (flyover), European starling, mourning dove, Canada goose (flyover) Things I Thought About: * Fuck ICE. Get the fuck off of my planet. * My shitty dental insurance reloading for the
backyard birds
Where: the neighborhood When: 3:10pm Bird Species: blue jay, house sparrow, northern mockingbird, American robin, American crow, European starling, northern cardinal, mourning dove, white-breasted nuthatch, red-bellied woodpecker, Cooper's hawk, house finch Things I Thought About: * Are nuthatches the same family as woodpeckers? I feel like
woodpeckers
Where: Huntley Meadows Park When: 8:05am-10:47am Bird Species: mourning dove, northern cardinal, brown creeper, pileated woodpecker, northern flicker (ha-ha!), song sparrow, house finch, red-headed woodpecker, eastern bluebird, red-bellied woodpecker, sora (lifer), swamp sparrow, white-throated sparrow, Canada goose, ruby-crowned kinglet, American goldfinch, northern
bluejay
Where: in my house When: I didn't go outside one time Bird Species: not a dang one Things I Thought About: * Well, I have missed the window for breakfast on my brand new high-protein, strict-routine nutritionist-approved lifestyle. I don't get to be annoyed;
mockingbird
Where: the neighborhood When: 11:30am Bird Species: house sparrow, American crow, mourning dove, Northern mockingbird Things I Thought About: * It’s cloudy and chilly and the light is dreadful, and I think it’s supposed to rain again in an hour. I bet I don’t see a single
sparrows
BREAKING NEWS BOTD UPDATE Still in beta and already a catastrophic misidentification. In this way I bring you the unfiltered Sara Kate experience: confident pronouncements, followed hard upon by mortified backpedaling. In my defense, I've only ever seen one once before, and that was in profile and in
backyard birds
Where: the neighborhood (it will be the same 4200-step sidewalk route every time I post that) When: out the door at 6:53am, incredibly Bird Species: house sparrow, northern cardinal, American crow, American robin, a perfectly symmetrical oblong wasp nest that was maliciously pretending to be a barred owl,