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
water birds
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
Fairfax County Birds
Where: Wakefield Park When: 11:35 am Bird Species: chipping sparrow, house finch, mourning dove, northern cardinal, northern cardinal, European starling, eastern bluebird Things I Thought About: * Okay, well, what you need to know about today's bird walk is that I was crying for most of it. No
Fairfax County Birds
Where: Bo White Gardens When: 7:41 pm Bird Species: house sparrow, American goldfinch, northern cardinal Things I Thought About: * I left the office late and then I missed my first train, and I believe I have about ten minutes of daylight left to see a bird. I will pull
backyard birds
Where: Ranger Road Park When: 6:25 pm Bird Species: Carolina wren, Carolina chickadee. This amuses me. Things I Thought About: * Work. I am thinking about work. “It has been a long week," is something I first said around 12:48 pm on Tuesday. * Something I have always been
yellow birds
Where: Eakin Park ballfield and the Eakin Community Garden When: 6:48 pm Bird Species: eastern bluebird, house finch, American robin, northern cardinal, Carolina wren, northern goddamn flicker, American goldfinch, great-crested flycatcher, house sparrow, gray catbird Things I Thought About: * Every time I come here now I expect to
Fairfax County Birds
Where: Eakin Park at Tobin Road When: 12:00 pm Bird Species: eastern bluebird, house finch, yellow-billed cuckoo, house sparrow, eastern wood pewee, downy woodpecker, northern cardinal, gray catbird Things I Thought About: * Oh, fuck it's hot. The bird of the day is humidity. * That trip to
Fairfax County Birds
Where: Eakin Community Park at Tobin Road When: 6:15 pm Bird Species: house sparrow, red-eyed vireo, blue-gray gnatcatcher, northern cardinal, American crow. eastern bluebird. Heard but Not Seen: Carolina wren, northern flicker, American goldfinch times a billion. Things I Thought About: * Typewriters. Today I was rooting around
flycatchers
Rabbit Rabbit Where: Danbury Park Trail into Lake Accotink Park When: 12:05 pm Bird Species: eastern wood pewee, fish crow, pileated woodpecker, red-bellied woodpecker, Carolina chickadee, Acadian flycatcher, downy woodpecker Things I Thought About: * It is my intention to have a very lazy weekend, so I'm
flycatchers
Where: Cross County Trail at Wakefield Park When: 5:15 pm Bird Species: house sparrow, northern cardinal, eastern kingbird, osprey, blue-gray gnatcatcher, downy woodpecker, mourning dove, gray catbird, northern mockingbird Things I Thought About: * It is the final day of July and needless to say I neither changed my
sparrows
Where: Eakin Park at Tobin Road When: 6:52 pm Bird Species: house sparrow, house finch, eastern bluebird, northern cardinal, chipping sparrow Things I Thought About: * I had 11 meetings in an 8.5 hour work day today. I am not thinking about anything. * Well, I'm thinking about
Fairfax County Birds
Where: Hidden Oaks Nature Center When: 11:00 am Bird Species: American robin, downy woodpecker, northern flicker, eastern bluebird, eastern phoebe, northern cardinal, American crow, eastern wood pewee, house finch, tufted titmouse, blue jay, pileated woodpecker, white-breasted nuthatch, eastern towhee, Carolina wren Things I Thought About: * It is robin