Birding by Ear – Part X

The gang heading out…
– A. Bryant

The path less travelled…
– Google Earth

There’s lots of heavy equipment on site, and they’re busy…
seemingly stacking rocks on top of stumps and other rocks!
– A. Bryant

Savannah Sparrow
– A. Bryant

Golden-crowned Sparrow
– A. Bryant

Golden-crowned and Savannah
– A. Bryant

Spotted Towhee
– A. Bryant

There’s a Rufous Hummingbird in there somewhere
– A. Bryant

The lovely Trumpet Honeysuckle Lonicera ciliosa was just starting
– A. Bryant

I liked the light on the Bigleaf Maple Acer macrophyllum
– A. Bryant

Turkey Vulture
– A. Bryant

Bewick’s Wren
– A. Bryant

and Pierre got a way better shot!
– P. Geoffray

Birding by Ear – Part X
by Andrew Bryant, 8 May 2021

Some field-trips will be remembered for being “pre COVID” and some will be remembered as being “post COVID”.   And frankly, birds don’t care.

Accordingly, Pierre and I took 8 members over 7 km of uneven terrain and had a great day over an area formerly known as the “Wildwood Bluffs”. Pierre writes: “It was a good outing the other day. People seemed more focused than in the past and there was real interest in learning something out of it.”

I don’t have a species/abundance list.  I was supposed to get one via e-Bird, but…it didn’t happen.  UPDATE 10 July 2021: It took a while, but here it is!

So here you get one person’s impression of a fine day out.  And it WAS…a fine day out.   I’m not a “bad” birder…but placed side by side by Pierre, well we would have gotten the common stuff…but would have missed most of it!

Accordingly, next year we’ll be starting a wee bit earlier…at 0630.