Where: downtown Washington, DC When: 5:50 pm Bird Species: rock pigeon, house sparrow, European starling, northern cardinal, northern mockingbird. Heard but not seen: peregrine falcon, my new part-time job, Things I Thought About: * The first season of Ted Lasso was a perfect season of television, and they for
Where: Cardinal Road at Cambridge Station Park When: 5:50 pm Bird Species: American robin, white-breasted nuthatch, northern cardinal, gray catbird, eastern bluebird, mourning dove Things I Thought About: * Happy Color, the coloring app that I have had on my phone for years, occasionally will throw up the wildest
Where: Bombay Hook NWR When: Friday afternoon sometime Bird Species: you can see the list on that entry Things I Thought About: * I had a full-blown panic attack in the dentist's chair earlier today. It was bad. * I have no idea what happened. I hate my periodontal
Where: Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, Cambridge, MD When: yesterday, 1:50 pm - 5:15 pm Bird Species: house finch, red-winged blackbird, great egret, common gallinule (lifer), lesser yellowlegs, short-billed dowitcher, bald eagle, ring-billed gull, greater yellowlegs, bald eagle, great blue heron, mallard, solitary sandpiper Things I Thought
Where: Bombay Hook NWR, Leipsic, DE When: 7:30 am - 11:20 am Bird Species: red-winged blackbird, great blue heron, great egret, mallard, American black duck, lesser yellow legs, semipalmated plover (lifer), American avocet, laughing gull, ring-billed gull, blue-winged teal, northern harrier, Canada goose, mute swans (I
Where: Bombay Hook NWR, Leipsic, DE When: 3:30-7:00pm Bird Species: house sparrow, common yellowthroat, great egret, snowy egret, American redstart, yellow warbler, marsh wren, downy woodpecker, gray catbird, double-crested cormorant, great blue heron, green heron, greater yellowlegs, Canada goose, laughing gull, green-winged teal, northern harrier,
Where: Eakin Community Park When: 5:45 pm Bird Species: eastern bluebird, house finch, mourning dove, eastern wood pewee, American goldfinch, downy woodpecker, American redstart, northern cardinal, American crow Things I Thought About: * This evening I was thinking about homo erectus, and how much longer he was around than homo
Where: the neighborhood When: 1:10 pm Bird Species: house sparrow, house finch, mourning dove, American crow, white-breasted nuthatch, northern cardinal Things I Thought About: * In a meeting today there was an icebreaker that was Dream Vacation, and without missing a beat I said "Oldarpoi Masa Camp in
Where: my parking lot, basically When: 5:40 pm Bird Species: house sparrow, mourning dove, gray catbird Things I Thought About: * Earlier today when the Tom Holland lip sync rolled through my feed, I really watched Tom Holland, my grandson, dancing to Umbrella, and in a couple of places I
Where: Hidden Oaks Nature Center When: 4:10 pm Bird Species: white-breasted nuthatch, downy woodpecker, blue jay, Carolina chickadee, mourning dove, American crow, house finch Things I Thought About: * I guess I am the single most Indoors Kid to ever drop $393.80 at REI. * You mislay a pair
Where: Huntley Meadows Park When: 7:10 am Bird Species: American robin, Carolina wren, mourning dove, red-bellied woodpecker, eastern bluebird, barn swallow, American redstart, great blue heron, lesser yellowlegs, eastern phoebe, osprey, great egret, red-headed woodpecker, downy woodpecker, gray catbird, white-breasted nuthatch, northern cardinal. ruby-throated hummingbird,
Where: Lake Accotink Marina When: 12:25 pm Bird Species: fish crow, Canada goose, double-crested cormorant, green heron, osprey, hairy woodpecker, American robin Things I Thought About: * I do not want to walk today. This is clean the house day at Case de Sara Kate, and I have done
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Where: the neighborhood When: 6:30 pm Bird Species: gray catbird, American robin, chimney swift, fish crow, mourning dove Things I Thought About: * It just thunderstormed, and I have surely missed the light for the day, but TGIF am I right. It is still good to get a walk in
urban birds
Where: Smithsonian Castle When: 6:40 pm Bird Species: gray catbird, American robin, northern mockingbird Things I Thought About: * A lot of new little corner parks and benches and little installation pieces have popped up all over downtown and around the Mall, and I like a lot of them, and
urban birds
Where: 14th St. and Pennsylvania, DC When: 6:52 pm Bird Species: blue jay, house sparrow, European starling Things I Thought About: * The usual extremely redacted shit I think about whenever I get close to the Ellipse. * One time I saw ducks in the World War I memorial and now
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Rabbit Rabbit Where: Ranger Road Park When: 5:38 pm Bird Species: gray catbird, American goldfinch, mourning dove Things I Thought About: * I’m pretty over this park. It’s really my only option on Tuesdays, and I have fallen into the trap of thinking I should see good birds
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Where: walking distance, but not the regular neighborhood loop When: 5:35 pm Bird Species: house sparrow, gray catbird, mourning dove, northern cardinal, blue jay, downy woodpecker, northern mockingbird, American robin Things I Thought About: * A bluejay was screaming all day outside my window, and naturally nowhere to be seen
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Where: the neighborhood When: 11:30 am Bird Species: song sparrow, mourning dove, house sparrow, northern cardinal, American robin, gray catbird, fish crow Things I Thought About: * Very early in my walk I hear, spot, and immediately lose a song sparrow, because I cannot cross the street in a timely
swamp friends
Where: Huntley Meadows Park When: 6:55 am Bird Species: American robin, mourning dove, eastern bluebird, barn swallow, red-bellied woodpecker, downy woodpecker, ruby-throated hummingbird, osprey, American goldfinch, blue-gray gnatcatcher, least sandpiper, greater yellowlegs, wood duck, solitary sandpaper, killdeer, great blue heron, great egret, double-crested cormorant, mallard,
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Where: the neighborhood When: 5:00 sharp Bird Species: mourning dove, European starling, house sparrow, northern mockingbird, gray catbird, American robin, northern cardinal, fish crow, blue jay Things I Thought About: * I haven't done what used to be my regular neighborhood morning loop in weeks and weeks. The
backyard birds
Where: Ranger Road Park When: 6:00 pm Bird Species: eastern bluebird, white-breasted nuthatch, gray catbird, mourning dove, northern cardinal Things I Thought About: * Absolutely Satan’s weather: cloudy, breezy, 78 degrees, 82% humidity. It feels so good, the breeze is so nice, then you stop moving for a
urban birds
Where: Downtown DC When: 12:45 pm Bird Species: European starling, house sparrow, rock pigeon, blue jay Things I Thought About: * Well, you definitely do not got to hand it to him, but downtown looks absolutely beautiful today. I have not seen Freedom Plaza without construction fencing all summer until
backyard birds
Where: Villa Lee Park When: 5:20 pm Bird Species: --- Things I Thought About: * I tried. I really did. I made the fatal mistake of saying “I have a little more time than usual before pub quiz. I’ll stop somewhere a little off the beaten track.” So I just
backyard birds
Where: Ossian Hall Park, which is actually the high school When: 5:20 pm Bird Species: house sparrow, mourning dove, American robin, northern mockingbird, house finch, American crow Things I Thought About: * Bird right now are quiet, and fat. * Bears will enter a period of hyperphagia in the fall, where