On a Lifelong Journey to Learn my Place
Another sunny day with heavy frost but not overly cold overnight temperatures warming to around 40 during the day. A little before lunch Rowan went to check the mail and mentioned when she got back that she wished she had taken her camera (the mailbox is across the street). She said a different bird had … Read more
A nice sunny day (though I noticed the sun wasn’t packing much punch, only 6 weeks from solstice) and my dad needed the car, so I biked to Moller Park for ultimate. I had decided to take a slight detour to check on the Marbled Godwit that has been hanging out near True Value when … Read more
It was unseasonably warm (and warmer than forecast), with temperatures reaching 50F (or pretty close). I don’t know, but wonder if this was due in part to only partly cloudy skies that allowed plenty of sun through during the day. I stopped by the Backdoor for pizza and saw Larry, who I asked about the … Read more
Originally I thought I would have little time to look for the Red Phalaropes today, but it turned out that neither of my afternoon classes would be meeting today, so after lunch Rowan and I headed out to see what we could find. During my morning class I thought I might have seen two phalaropes … Read more
Rowan and I spent some time out looking for birds today. After not seeing anything unusual in the Channel, we went out to Starrigavan. The tide was up pretty high, reaching the full flood while we were there. I checked along the upper part of the estuary and did not find any unusual sparrows. While … Read more
Rowan and I spent some time looking for birds today, including in the Channel, out at Starrigavan, and then at the Turnaround (we had also intended to check out John Brown’s Beach but the gates onto the Coast Guard base were closed for some reason). We saw mostly fairly typical birds, but also had a … Read more