Animal Person
MAY 12, 2009
Reading Deb's post about the goslings at Poplar and getting Jenny 's request to sign a petition to save the Canada geese of Ballwin, Missouri from mass extermination reminded me how much I miss the wildlife at the neighborhood we lived in from 2002-early 2005. This is Girlie Girl. Not to be confused with Little Girl, of course.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 18, 2018
I finally found one of those Lesser Black-backed Gulls I’ve been chasing all winter, a worthy replacement for the rare geese I hoped to find at Braddock Bay’s North Marina. They found twenty-four species of ducks, geese, and swans, not bad for a half-day. What was your best bird of the weekend?
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 25, 2016
Barnacle Goose is my choice for the next bird, because we discovered one lone bird among all of the hundreds of Canada Geese , Greylag Geese and Eurasian Wigeon at Freiston Shore and it was as if it was a test to see if we would notice “the odd one out”! Canada Geese , Greylag Geese and Eurasian Wigeon.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2011
We know that big birds like waterfowl such as ducks and geese benefit from the flying-V. In fact, such flocks demand a higher energy cost and, based on my personal experience with Columba livia , a great tolerance for trash birds. Waterbirds like pelicans and cormorants make the most of the chevron formation as well.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2022
Less and Gilroy sort through the exogenous (external) and endogenous (internal) factors thought to cause vagrancy and the scientific experiments that have sought to prove their significance with patience and plain language as well as charts and photographs. Next time, I’ll know why. It’s not always easy reading.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 17, 2015
I was to go inland to Pocosin Lakes NWR, home of massive flocks of Tundra Swans and Snow Geese. We saw both, though the goose flock was too distant to pick out the Ross’s and Cackling Geese that are usually tucked within. Following the easy tick of a long-staying Harlequin Duck at the pier in Rodanthe, things got harder.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 20, 2014
I observe them, but feel I still lack experience to tell with certainty the SEO from LEO in flight. First stop and – bingo – Northern Shoveler , the last of the common duck species that I haven’t seen this winter. And the citizens of Kikinda are justly proud of it. Long-eared Owls are irresistibly cute. Once perched, it is easy.
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