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Nov. 6th, 2020 08:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynOther birds I have seen around here recently:
- A few minutes after the Cooper's hawk the other day, I spotted a bird somewhat smaller than a sparrow flying in a weirdly irregular manner. The wings were too visible for it to be a hummingbird, but it was definitely trying to stop, hover, change direction on a dime, etc. Given my personal rule of thumb that if a bird is flying like a pok gai it's probably going after insects I can't currently see, I waited to see if it would land- and it did, on the phone wire above me, giving the slightest little whispery twittwit a few times. Flickered its way over to a nearby bush, where it was close enough to eye level for me to focus on its actual coloration. Turned out to be a golden-crowned kinglet, when I finally got a good enough look. They are teeny.
- Yesterday afternoon, around 3:45, a Carolina wren. Heard first, spotted eventually. This is a bird that is in serious contention with mockingbirds for loudest damn thing in the area with feathers, but which is maybe halfway between a golf ball and a street handball in size.
- The usual suspects- sparrows, finches, starlings, seagulls, etc. Hopefully I can get down to the water sometime while it's light today; this is the time of year when we start seeing mergansers and eiders in earnest.
- A few minutes after the Cooper's hawk the other day, I spotted a bird somewhat smaller than a sparrow flying in a weirdly irregular manner. The wings were too visible for it to be a hummingbird, but it was definitely trying to stop, hover, change direction on a dime, etc. Given my personal rule of thumb that if a bird is flying like a pok gai it's probably going after insects I can't currently see, I waited to see if it would land- and it did, on the phone wire above me, giving the slightest little whispery twittwit a few times. Flickered its way over to a nearby bush, where it was close enough to eye level for me to focus on its actual coloration. Turned out to be a golden-crowned kinglet, when I finally got a good enough look. They are teeny.
- Yesterday afternoon, around 3:45, a Carolina wren. Heard first, spotted eventually. This is a bird that is in serious contention with mockingbirds for loudest damn thing in the area with feathers, but which is maybe halfway between a golf ball and a street handball in size.
- The usual suspects- sparrows, finches, starlings, seagulls, etc. Hopefully I can get down to the water sometime while it's light today; this is the time of year when we start seeing mergansers and eiders in earnest.
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Date: 2020-11-06 05:23 pm (UTC)(Obviously I love them with my entire being.)