cardinal
Where: inside, thank you very much When: all day, except the shoveling, which I did not enjoy and which I'm going to have to do again before sundown Bird Species: around 8am an American crow was systematically picking through and rejecting items from the recycling bin that fell
bluejay
Where: the neighborhood When: 7:16am-8:09am Bird Species: mourning dove, northern cardinal, European starling, northern mockingbird, American robin, American crow, Cooper's hawk, house sparrow, house finch, white breasted-nuthatch, red-bellied woodpecker, blue jay Things I Thought About: * It is pretty remarkable that they let Thomas Harris name that
sparrows
Where: Wakefield Park The Brushy Hedgerow When: 11:43 am 12:06pm Bird Species: mourning dove, house sparrow, house finch, northern cardinal, northern mockingbird, white-throated sparrow, blue jay Things I Thought About: * Cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, COLD. I do not want to go for a walk, I want
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. * Oh, maybe
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 for
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 they should
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, mourning
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 to