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birds and birthdays

2003-02-15 - 2:30 p.m.

Today is BF's birthday. We went on a short bird walk in Fontainebleau State Park, but it was too windy to see much. Italicized birds were seen roadside, not in the park itself.

  1. Brown Pelican
  2. Double-Crested Cormorant
  3. Great Blue Heron
  4. Great Egret
  5. Blue-Winged Teal
  6. American Coot
  7. Common Moorhen
  8. Killdeer
  9. Laughing Gull
  10. Rock Dove
  11. Purple Martin
  12. American Crow
  13. Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
  14. American Robin
  15. Northern Mockingbird
  16. European Starling
  17. Loggerhead Shrike
  18. Yellow-Rumped Warbler, "Myrtle" type
  19. Red-Winged Blackbird

Afterward we cruised the delicious samples at the Mandeville Farmer's Market, washed down with a powerful Hot Buttered Rum. Whoa. We took home a bottle of a local wine and a blue cheese and walnut torte for later.

BF has now put up my hand-tiled bird house. I'm hoping for either Eastern Bluebirds or Carolina Wrens.

minutes later

I have just added Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker to the yard list. I had a great close-up view of the bird, a juvenile, in the neighbor's tree just outside my office window.

later

I did my Backyard Bird Count from about 2:20 to 3:20 in the afternoon. It was a lot more exciting than yesterday, but the Brown Thrasher was still MIA. Cutest moment: A Tufted Titmouse took a bath in the bird bath, followed by a curious White-Throated Sparrow. A watching Yellow-Rumped Warbler approached the bath but ultimately didn't get in the water.

  1. Eurasian Collared Dove - 2
  2. Mourning Dove
  3. Red-Bellied Woodpecker (heard)
  4. Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker
  5. Carolina Chickadee
  6. Tufted Titmouse -- 2
  7. Carolina Wren -- 2
  8. Northern Mockingbird
  9. Yellow-Rumped Warbler -- 2
  10. Northern Cardinal -- 2
  11. House Finch
  12. White-Throated Sparrow
  13. Red-Winged Blackbird

I'm convinced that I saw more individuals of these species than noted, but the rules of the BBC are that you only count the highest number of individuals that you can see in your field of view at one time.

I'm currently cooling off a birthday cake and marinating some steaks for BF's birthday dinner. I might open the bottle of wine to get our appetites up a bit early, tee hee.

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