Exhibiting self control and trying to dig out from vacation backlog.....not
going out in the field. (yet) Watched a bit in the yard and spotted a
Traill's in the locust tree. Not as exciting as Rick's YB but an exciting
visitor to my yard. By the time I grabbed the camera and bins it had
disappeared. Did have my Barred Owls calling again.
Thinking of how wild West Va is for birding compared to suburbia Howard
County. I often bird/hike alone and sometimes get questioned about feeling
safe. I'm careful but not too concerned about going out and about alone. I
did have some twinges of unease in W Va and realized how little we have to
worry about around here. A quick video on my flickr site of a certain large
black bear that was competing with the birds for the Autumn Olive berries :)
There was also a cub up so high in a tree it looked like a vulture from a
distance!
http://flic.kr/p/cRe4Rd
Yard list.....
Black Vulture 2
Turkey Vulture 6
Rock Pigeon 3
Mourning Dove 8
Barred Owl 2
Chimney Swift 12
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 3
Red-bellied Woodpecker 4
Downy Woodpecker 6
Hairy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 1
Pileated Woodpecker 2
Alder/Willow Flycatcher (Traill's) 1
Blue Jay 3
American Crow 2
Carolina Chickadee 6
Tufted Titmouse 5
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
Carolina Wren 3
American Robin 12
Gray Catbird 2
Northern Cardinal 4
Common Grackle 5
House Finch 2
American Goldfinch 9
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
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