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
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,
backyard birds
Where: Auto repair shop to my house, via surface streets and Cross County Trail at Wakefield When: 10:15-11:23 am (Note: when I did this same walk to pick up my car at 4:30 it took me 31:11. You'll never see me rush back
sparrows
Where: Cross County Trail - Eakin Community Park, Tobin Road to Prosperity When: 90 minutes starting around 2:30pm or so Bird Species: white-throated sparrows, white-breasted nuthatch, Carolina chickadee, downy woodpecker, turkey vulture (flyover), yellow-rumped warbler, tufted titmouse, eastern bluebird, Northen cardinal, red-bellied woodpecker. Heard but not
cardinal
Where: Cross County Trail - Wakefield Park towards Accotink When: 12:17pm - 1:42pm (was watching my new Garmin) Bird species: white-throated sparrow, tufted titmouse, pileated woodpecker, red-bellied woodpecker, Canada goose, Northern cardinal, Carolina chickadee, northern mockingbird, downy woodpecker. Things I Thought About: * My car door latch doesn'
mockingbird
Where: around my condo complex and the one next door When: very late (too late) afternoon Bird species: house sparrow, house finch, mourning dove, American robin, European starling, Canada goose (flyover), northern mockingbird Things I Thought About: * The sun is going down later, I think, but the sun didn’t