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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
backyard birds
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
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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
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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
backyard birds
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
backyard birds
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
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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
backyard birds
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
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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
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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
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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
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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