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| Big bird of the day yesterday for the boss and me A Common Gallinule. They are just that up at Montezuma...common as cattails, but I had never seen one here in our county before |
I was crazy excited to find a single Blackburnian Warbler down along our driveway a couple weeks ago...a life bird for me, a first for the farm, and a general big deal here at Northview.
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| "My" Blackburnian |
Then this morning I read about some folks who went birding yesterday in Quebec....they saw over 28,000 of them!
In one day.
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| You can see why Yellow-rumped Warblers are sometimes called "Butterbutts". |
Plus staggering thousands of other warblers and various migrants, passing by and landing around them. 72,000 Butterbutts, or Yellow-rumped Warblers!!! How can I type enough exclamation marks for such as that?!? We sometimes see 20 or 30 of them, and maybe saw a hundred at Cape May last year.....
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| Our other good find yesterday, an Orchard Oriole...not rare either, but not always easy to come upon |
This is the stuff dreams are made of...if you are a birder that is...and I do dream of birds all the time, although even in my dreams numbers like these would be unlikely....however, I am contemplating getting an enhanced driver's license so I can cross borders and get on planes. Both are highly unlikely for this farm girl hermit, but a sight like that might just tempt me.....
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| An Eastern Kingbird from yesterday. Not rare either, but so obliging about posing |
Oooh! BIRDS! THOUSANDS of them! What a gas that would have been to see them. I love how excited you get about birds, kind of the way I get when I find rare or fascinating plants. I would probably be that way about birds, too, IF I could see them. Mostly, I bird by ear, and get thrilled when I hear the glorious song of a Winter Wren or a Hermit Thrush in the woods.
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