I'm not a radical birder, who would traipse across the countryside looking for elusive birds, but I enjoy being observant where I am. Some of my favourite sightings around our house and the pond since we've moved here have been ... a snowy owl (truly awesome!), a green heron (stunning), American bittern (we practically stepped on it thinking it was a plant), kingfishers, snipes (very odd looking; chicken legs with a sandpiper body), bobolink (their call sounds like a chuckle; very funny birds) and wood thrush (very shy; always a victory to glimpse one). This year we have numerous Eastern Meadowlark, one of my very favourite birds. I have heard that their numbers are dropping Ontario-wide; perhaps they are all moving to the county because they are regulars in our field this spring! :-) And down at Point Traverse we were thrilled to see a migrating sandhill crane on it's way to the north for the summer.
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You must have given him directions as he showed up at my place this afternoon. (Sat.)
Tricia
:-) .. perhaps he has a buddy! I wonder where the females are? I see this guy every afternoon now from about 12:30 - 2:00.
We had a baltimore oriole two days ago in one of the trees. I keep meaning to cut an orange in half and stick it out on the railing, just to see if we could draw him over.
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