Gray again, bird update
Apr. 11th, 2009 09:42 amWe were supposed to get rain or snow overnight. Hasn't happened yet, but the sky gives me the impression that that has been filed under "Pending Business" . . .
Some blotch-finches at the feeder this morning, molting goldfinches. No sign of the redpolls yesterday or yet this morning. I suspect that if we do see those again, they will represent a different flock passing through.
Brown-headed cowbirds mixed in with the grackles and starlings. Evil!
Saw a pair of ducks up at the cemetery pond the other day, automatically assumed mallards. Then one went "gloop" and vanished. Then the other. Hooded mergansers, gone fishing.
Wife reports ice-out on the nature center lake, also wood frogs quacking.
Some blotch-finches at the feeder this morning, molting goldfinches. No sign of the redpolls yesterday or yet this morning. I suspect that if we do see those again, they will represent a different flock passing through.
Brown-headed cowbirds mixed in with the grackles and starlings. Evil!
Saw a pair of ducks up at the cemetery pond the other day, automatically assumed mallards. Then one went "gloop" and vanished. Then the other. Hooded mergansers, gone fishing.
Wife reports ice-out on the nature center lake, also wood frogs quacking.