(no subject)
Mar. 7th, 2022 08:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynWent out for a bike ride yesterday for what I think was the first time this year. 7.64 miles total. Multiple ride segments because I brought my binoculars with me and came to a screeching halt several times for bird watching. Somebody spotted a Barrow's goldeneye off Deer Island the day before yesterday and I had high hopes for maybe catching sight myself.
No such luck, unless the Hey It's Got A Dark Head With A White GOD DAMMIT BIRD HOW DID YOU NOTICE THE BINOCULARS AT THIS DISTANCE I SWEAR TO GOD YOU BASTARDS SEE ME LOOKING AND PICK THAT MOMENT TO DIVE that I saw was a Barrow's. I got one common goldeneye, though, and like eighty brants (which are small black and brown geese with a bit of white), and more eiders than I've ever seen in one place at one time (I stopped counting at 193). Also my first white-winged scoter of Weird Duck Time, which was nice.
(Since I do not know how to alt-text a link rather than an image: the link goes to birdandmoon comics' strip "The Four Seasons of Bird Watching". Elegant Songbird Spring depicts some sort of yellow-headed warbler singing on a branch. The Subtle Treasures of Summer has a small brown bird with a spotted white underbelly. Magnificent Fall Migrations has three broad-winged hawks in flight. And Weird Duck Time has three ducks with sawtoothed beaks and demented looks- a northern shoveler, which has a green head and a brown and white body and a beak well out of proportion to the size of its head, a red-breasted merganser, which has a long needlenosed beak full of teeth as well as having spiky punk-looking feathers off the back of its head, and a white winged scoter, which is a black duck with white on the back of its head, the bridge of its nose, and the base of its beak, which also happens to be three different colors, because ducks weren't weird enough to begin with.)
No such luck, unless the Hey It's Got A Dark Head With A White GOD DAMMIT BIRD HOW DID YOU NOTICE THE BINOCULARS AT THIS DISTANCE I SWEAR TO GOD YOU BASTARDS SEE ME LOOKING AND PICK THAT MOMENT TO DIVE that I saw was a Barrow's. I got one common goldeneye, though, and like eighty brants (which are small black and brown geese with a bit of white), and more eiders than I've ever seen in one place at one time (I stopped counting at 193). Also my first white-winged scoter of Weird Duck Time, which was nice.
(Since I do not know how to alt-text a link rather than an image: the link goes to birdandmoon comics' strip "The Four Seasons of Bird Watching". Elegant Songbird Spring depicts some sort of yellow-headed warbler singing on a branch. The Subtle Treasures of Summer has a small brown bird with a spotted white underbelly. Magnificent Fall Migrations has three broad-winged hawks in flight. And Weird Duck Time has three ducks with sawtoothed beaks and demented looks- a northern shoveler, which has a green head and a brown and white body and a beak well out of proportion to the size of its head, a red-breasted merganser, which has a long needlenosed beak full of teeth as well as having spiky punk-looking feathers off the back of its head, and a white winged scoter, which is a black duck with white on the back of its head, the bridge of its nose, and the base of its beak, which also happens to be three different colors, because ducks weren't weird enough to begin with.)
