Birders:
You may recall my project of observing chickadees for 675 consecutive days about three years ago. After a while I decided to try the same with crows. After 789 consecutive days of observing at least one crow per day that ended yesterday. I thought it would most likely happen on one of our rainy days, not a sunny day like yesterday. However, over 26 months of daily observations is not a bad run. When I started this adventure in late spring of 2015 a friend who knew of my chickadee run of consecutive days asked me why I picked such an easy bird to see as a crow. After several initial short runs of days with crows and then missing a day it became obvious to me that even though crows are much larger and noisier than chickadees they do not readily show up at backyard feeders as chickadees do. So crows are not necessarily easier to observe than chickadees. Even though I made several late afternoon/early evening only observations of the day, I often needed to make my observations while away from home running an errand. There were days when only one observation was made; however, one day I made 27 observations. Hearing a crow was considered an observation. I am not sure I will try this again with a third species. Bob Holtz ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
