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May. 18th, 2021 07:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynThe raven was back this morning.
Didn't see it. But GHWAAAA GHWAAA GHWAAA noises are a little hard to mistake for anything else.
We've also, as it turns out, got orioles and goldfinches in the area. The orioles have been appearing in the backyard for several days now, I think mostly because the neighbor with multiple feeders has a fruit feeder in among the seed ones. The goldfinches, I think, come to anywhere in the area that has cover and seed; I've seen them on Deer Island and in Fisherman's Bend as well as here.
Also teeny little warblers of several kinds. Sometimes I wanna thump the people who gave bird species common names upside the head- for example, whoever named the American Black Duck, which is a species that looks like a slightly browner version of the mallard*, or possibly the Ring-Necked Duck, whose neck ring is only really visible to any great degree if the duck is dead and you are a hunter or taxonomist examining the corpse. Or the American Redstart; the 'start' in the name is an old word for tail, but the 'red' on an American redstart is two patches of orange near the base of the tail, which is mostly black. And sometimes the species namers are right on the nose, because a few days ago we had a visit from what my bird guides said was a Black and White Warbler.
I could not get a photograph of one, but you may judge for yourself exactly how black and white this bird is.
*One wonders if this falls under the heading of "Black Irish" being "pale pink people who happen to have *gasp* DARK HAIR in a nation of REDHEADS AND BLONDES", or possibly "tall, dark, and handsome" meaning "six foot tall, BROWN HAIR OMG, and NO SERIOUSLY WE TOTALLY CANNOT GET OVER HIM HAVING DARK BROWN HAIR". But that's a resentment for another post.
Didn't see it. But GHWAAAA GHWAAA GHWAAA noises are a little hard to mistake for anything else.
We've also, as it turns out, got orioles and goldfinches in the area. The orioles have been appearing in the backyard for several days now, I think mostly because the neighbor with multiple feeders has a fruit feeder in among the seed ones. The goldfinches, I think, come to anywhere in the area that has cover and seed; I've seen them on Deer Island and in Fisherman's Bend as well as here.
Also teeny little warblers of several kinds. Sometimes I wanna thump the people who gave bird species common names upside the head- for example, whoever named the American Black Duck, which is a species that looks like a slightly browner version of the mallard*, or possibly the Ring-Necked Duck, whose neck ring is only really visible to any great degree if the duck is dead and you are a hunter or taxonomist examining the corpse. Or the American Redstart; the 'start' in the name is an old word for tail, but the 'red' on an American redstart is two patches of orange near the base of the tail, which is mostly black. And sometimes the species namers are right on the nose, because a few days ago we had a visit from what my bird guides said was a Black and White Warbler.
I could not get a photograph of one, but you may judge for yourself exactly how black and white this bird is.
*One wonders if this falls under the heading of "Black Irish" being "pale pink people who happen to have *gasp* DARK HAIR in a nation of REDHEADS AND BLONDES", or possibly "tall, dark, and handsome" meaning "six foot tall, BROWN HAIR OMG, and NO SERIOUSLY WE TOTALLY CANNOT GET OVER HIM HAVING DARK BROWN HAIR". But that's a resentment for another post.
