I’ve given up on adding the solitaire to the 2006 list, though it’s apparently still at the CC. The trips add up to too many miles. Seeing it 11 days ago was a real pleasure.
Forest Park birds, January 4–10
January 4
Highlights:
Wood Duck (5)
Great Blue Heron (1)
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (1 male)
Pied-billed Grebe (1)
January 6
On the walk in to [...]
A walk through Tower Grove Park early this afternoon turned up more birds than my quick drive through last Wednesday did. There were robins throughout the park, as well as several flocks of juncos and 50+ Red-winged Blackbirds (all but one of them males) in a flock of starlings.
The highlights were found off-road and would [...]
From NPR’s Morning Edition today:
No one knows what birds see when they look out at the world, says ornithologist Daniel Klem, but he’s sure they don’t see glass. He estimates that at least 1 billion birds are killed by flying into windows every year in the United States.
The full story can be found here.
This morning I arrived at Meramec Community College before 8:00 a.m., hoping to spot the Townsend’s Solitaire before it began its day. Two birders had just arrived and hadn’t seen the bird. This time I waited only a little over an hour before giving up and going elsewhere. I did check juniper bushes on the [...]
