Taking notes along the way
Some of my favorite birds have returned to the neighborhood over the last couple of weeks. Baltimore orioles have been eating the orange slices. Ruby-throated hummers are visiting the nectar feeder. Rose-breasted grosbeaks battle the cardinals for the right to park on the seed feeder bar for minutes at a time and pick at the Read More …
Chilly, partly sunny day. Roaring winds. Spotted a juvenile red-headed woodpecker this morning, an uncommon site according to my Merlin Bird ID app. I don’t understand why given that Illinois is a breeding/wintering site according to the map. That said, they do leave the northern and western parts of the range during the winter. Maybe Read More …
I was never much of a bird-watcher. I liked them and enjoyed feeding them, but except for ooh-ing and ah-ing over the odd goldfinch or bluebird that dropped by for a snack, I wasn’t overly interested in the types of birds that visited my backyard. That changed over the last few years as I visited Read More …