Day: February 24, 2020
Cape boy to be the youngest to climb Kilimanjaro
Mobbing.
Originally posted on Seasons Flow:
There’s a certain behavior in birds that seems surprising when you first see it- smaller birds ganging up on larger birds. This is called ‘mobbing’. Here’s an example. A few years ago I saw a group of Blue Jays gathered around a Red-Tailed Hawk squawking at it noisily. Normally, these Blue Jays may be the target of such a Hawk,… Continue reading Mobbing.
The Peanut Gallery – 2019 Review.
Originally posted on Seasons Flow:
Welcome everyone to another year, it’s time for a new edition of The Past Year On My Patio! Previous yearly reports can be found here: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018. This post is bittersweet because this will most likely be the last post about my current patio. I’ll most likely be moving this spring. I’ll miss all my furred and feathered friends here!… Continue reading The Peanut Gallery – 2019 Review.
Pictures from 2019 – Birds.
Originally posted on Seasons Flow:
It’s time for the 5th annual bird photo highlights, 2019 edition! Here’s bird highlights from 2015 , 2016 , 2017 and 2018 if you’d like to take a look. One of my favorite pictures from last year- a male Red-Breasted Merganser close-up. And since I started with a waterfowl closeup, here’s another- a Horned Grebe, seen during migration time. These… Continue reading Pictures from 2019 – Birds.
#304! (A Long Time Coming)
Originally posted on Opportunistic Birder:
I’ve been going down to the riverbed with Layla a lot lately. It’s gotten me some new birds in my 5MR, such as the White-tailed Kite I saw recently or the bird that turned out to be #304 on my lifelist. This particular walk was just before sunset. Layla had chased a covey of quail in the field just behind… Continue reading #304! (A Long Time Coming)
Bird #303 and First Paddleboarding!
Originally posted on Opportunistic Birder:
On January 24th my band had a gig in Morro Bay. I checked the local rare bird alert and saw that a lot of people had seen a Yellow-crowned Night Heron in the harbor. So, before load-in, I went down to the marina in the state park and looked around. It was low tide so I first checked out the… Continue reading Bird #303 and First Paddleboarding!
Bird #302: January 20, 2020
Originally posted on Opportunistic Birder:
Let’s go paddleboarding this weekend!”, we said when FedEx Tracking assured us our new boards would arrive on the Saturday of MLK weekend. We had a lot of plans for those three days, not least of which was watching the 49ers win the NFC Championship. Our boxes arrived at 12:54 PM, and the game was at 3:40, so we pumped… Continue reading Bird #302: January 20, 2020
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