Took a week to work up the energy, but it hung around.
Category: birding
383
About time for this one. Couldn’t have been in a weirder place.
Thanks Jeanie and Tom!
303
Not what I was expecting this weekend on patch.
Thanks Joe!
220!
Can’t believe I didn’t wait for better sun this morning, but they didn’t go anywhere thankfully.
Also res #175 (surprisingly not on my expected list in hindsight), commute #226.
Hudsonian!
Phone dinged while I was on a checkin call this morning. Cliff: “if you’re out birding, hudsonian godwit at lower mill st pond at beaver brook”. “!!!” Realized I had a couple hours before anything urgent, so I sent a quick message saying I’ll be back in an hour and ran out.
Twenty five minutes later:
Yes, on the heavily vegetated side and not the drained pond.
County 302, patch 180!
301
Thanks Leslie and Diana!
Patch #178
Patch 176/177
Didn’t manage a recording of the rail unfortunately. Last 2 patch bird day was back in 2013.
Modern Birding
Rough timeline from Saturday:
11:14 Pull into the tennis court lot at Dunback.
11:20: Reach the first boardwalk and hear interesting finches, decide to check by the gardens instead of heading to the Bowman end.
11:33: Find some crossbills.
11:38: Pull out phone at get a recording.
11:46 They’ve quieted down, text recording to Tim.
11:48: Tim says type 1 and 10 by ear, sonogram check proceeding.
11:49: OMGOSH 1, 3, and 10!!!!!
11:55 Tim sends edited clip with sonogram.
So, 20 minutes in the field from discovery to expert analysis to full documentation.
Commute 222
Thinking my goal of six new commute birds might be a bit too easy, this is already #3 for the year (shrike and crossbill).
