23 September 08
House Wren, Once Again
This bird has definitely developed a close relationship with the downed branch…
22 September 08
Western Wood-peewee
Another denizen of the walnut tree. It has very short wings and a pinkish bill, buffy wing bars…
20 September 08
Black Phoebe
There’s a lot of activity around the vegetable garden these days. This black phoebe is chasing, and being chased by, a young mockingbird. I hope they’re all remembering to eat the bugs…
18 September 08
Scolding, Again
The house wren continues a regime of scolding from the brush pile…
16 September 08
House Wren, Scolding
A house wren has been hanging around outside the window in a downed tree limb, scolding at regular intervals. It took me a long time to find it because they don’t move when they make this unruly chatter and it is exactly the same color as the now-brown leaves…
15 September 08
Prairie Falcon
Raptor Center, again. This prairie falcon is sharing digs with a peregrine, which is about a third again as large.
13 September 08
Red-tailed Hawk
Sometimes, what you have in your pocket is a fountain pen with turquoise ink…
12 September 08
9 September 08
Green-backed Heron
There’s a new — or perhaps old, but newly exposed — weir-type-barrier under one of the bridges in the Arboretum. A green-backed heron was fishing from it very animatedly at lunch today…
8 September 08
Solitary Sandpiper
A report of not one but two solitary sandpipers in North Davis had me rushing out at lunchtime on the bike (with a tailwind), seeing the bird despite a bevvy of landscape painters around the pond, sketching it for all of 10 seconds, and rushing back (with a headwind). It was probably a 7-mile round trip. A few more of those and I’ll be starting to think I’m training for something.
Bird # 163 for this year’s birds by bicycle…