Why the unbridled glee over maximum birds? Sure, you may get a chance for
a few tick marks on meaningless lists, but this storm will be far from an
enjoyable experience for millions of birds. Disorientation, cold, wet, lack
of food, even survival. Check out what Nature sends our way, but employ
Why the unbridled glee over “maximum birds”? Sure, you may get a chance for a
few tick marks on meaningless lists, but this storm will be far from an
enjoyable experience for millions of birds. Disorientation, cold, wet, lack
of food, even survival. Check out what Nature sends our way, but
I, too, feel sad about the birds harmed by storms, and also those harmed in migration, and those harmed by towers, windows, oil spills, cats, deliberate habitat destruction by humans, unthinking habitat destruction through climate change, natural predation (yes, the shock of witnessing death turns
This morning I watched a male Evening Grosbeak feeding in a tree in the
wooded gully just west of Liddell Lab, along Freese Road. There were
robins, cardinals, and a flock of waxwings in the tree as well, but I
easily could have walked past the grosbeak (especially with the fog!) had
it not called
Several COMMON LOONS offshore around 535 Lansing Station Road, Lansing.
Birders welcome.
Go thru both back yard gates , down path to beach and dock.
Can also use the new stairs off the upper path to the left, to go directly to
the boathouse 2nd story deck for a higher up look.
Lake is calm, so
Having just reviewed the photos and the various resources this afternoon with
Lee Ann van Leer, I feel some confidence in calling Marty's bird a hatch-year,
or young female (hatched this year). Lee Ann and I agree.
Hatch-year males and female Rufous Hummingbirds are very similar, and both look
