Tag Archives: birds
Posted on 28-Mar-2008
Unfortunately, the title of this entry is quite literal: Last week a hawk died in our neighborhood. As the poor thing expired, it managed to take out a transformer and blow a power line —rendering our block powerless until dinnertime. It had (the remains of) a squirrel, so one theory ...
Posted on 03-Mar-2008
I know I'll continue my habit of writing lists on bits of paper, but I thought it'd be useful to maintain an online list of the birds I've seen in our neighborhood. I've limited this to visitors to our yards and the nearby park.
"Birders, are ye?" Well, I prefer the ...
Posted on 19-Feb-2008
In autumn and winter the birds arrive from the north to keep us company. This typically means a lot of White-crowned and Golden-crowned Sparrows around the yard, but my flagship migrator is the Yellow-rumped Warbler. Or, as Simon and I call them, Yellow-butts. For their 2007 arrival, I first noticed ...
Posted on 29-Apr-2007
While picking peas, I've been subject to vocal commentary by various avians.
Anna's Hummingbird: Scritchy scritchy complain scritchy... BzzzzzzPINGk!
Black Phoebe: Pfee pfee. (Wag tail.) Pfee.
Western Scrub-jay: (Insert loud, rasping squawk of choice.)
...And: Chichichi chichi chichi hyeenhyeenh! Hyeenh hyeenh! (Repeat.) Chestnut-backed Chickadees have become our neighbors.
Chestnut-backed chickadee during a bath: "Hey! I ...
