Just had two (possibly three) chestnut-sided warblers working the catkins outside my window (I'm embarrassed to still not know what trees they are, and will have to find out when/if they leaf out). If the narrative is to be believed, this means I've seen more chestnut-sided warblers from the comfort of my couch than Audubon did all his life.
I like Caroline's big yard suggestion, but wasn't sure if I'd participate because (1) I don't spend a lot of time at home, and (2) the time I do is sitting on my windowside couch early in the morning in a half-asleep state, only casually noticing things as they flit by (which qualifies me for a subcategory: couch potato birding :-), and I wasn't sure that I wanted to put in the effort to get a good count. But this morning, the birds are conspiring against my laziness, showing up with great variety: warbling vireo (visual and silent), Baltimore oriole, foy rose-breasted grosbeak, red-breasted and white-breasted nuthatches (rbnu a feeder regular for the last couple months), a crow chasing a raven, red-bellied woodpecker, northern flicker, caro wren, downy, cowbird, robin, chickadee, goldfinch, modo, junco. And for a while a non-warbling vireo was singing - seemed closer to red-eyed but a bit off, can't rule out a philadelphia, I suppose. By muckrace rules I can count this vireo sp as one bird :-). So I suppose you can consider this post my submission to the contest :-) And I'm not counting the Koel whose distinctly-heard song perked me up for a bit before I realized it was coming from the BBC coverage of the Indian elections on TV :-) Suan _____________________ http://suan-yong.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
