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Mar. 22nd, 2020 11:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynWent down to the shoreline yesterday. I suppose it might be a beach, but half of it is only above water if it’s at least an hour and a half after high tide, and the other half is about 95% covered with rocks most of the time. I mostly go to watch birds and look for sea glass. There was a loon yesterday- gray nonbreeding/immature colors, not the black and white colors they normally show- and at least two species of gull. (My binoculars were freebies for MS fundraising and aren’t good enough for me to pick out the difference between a herring gull and a ring-billed gull, but I can generally distinguish a herring gull from a great black-backed gull. generally.) I heard an oystercatcher, though I didn’t see it, and I saw what I think was a great blue heron.
and a flock of like thirty hooded mergansers flew across my vision before landing in the water. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology bird reporting software on my phone went into ‘dude, that’s way more of that species than your time/place would generally indicate, you better explain how you’re sure of that count’ mode. kind of proud of that.
further inland the house finches and grackles are out in force, the robins are present if not singing, the red-winged blackbirds are putting in appearances, a song sparrow made itself heard near me, and the cardinals and bluejays are adding to the local soundscape. also the usual house sparrows, starlings, pigeons, and mourning doves, but the others are louder for now.
and a flock of like thirty hooded mergansers flew across my vision before landing in the water. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology bird reporting software on my phone went into ‘dude, that’s way more of that species than your time/place would generally indicate, you better explain how you’re sure of that count’ mode. kind of proud of that.
further inland the house finches and grackles are out in force, the robins are present if not singing, the red-winged blackbirds are putting in appearances, a song sparrow made itself heard near me, and the cardinals and bluejays are adding to the local soundscape. also the usual house sparrows, starlings, pigeons, and mourning doves, but the others are louder for now.
