Well birding was a real bust this weekend. Friday evening Lise and I checked out an area at Rose Lake. It has real potential and is fairly close to here. We were there late in the evening though, just about dark, so we saw nothing new.
The rest of the weekend centered around Molly. She had a great violin recital on Saturday and received a number of complements. She did some Irish songs and I think everyone liked the change from all the classical pieces that were done.
After the recital we went to Zap Zone for laser tag. I got killed by a bunch of nasty little six-year-olds. There was a whole pack of them roaming together. I could knock off one or two of the little terrorists but then the other five of them would nail me. Six-year-olds and lasers are a bad combination. What really hurt was the, “Hey shoot the old guy,” comment.
Today it was a grueling all day volleyball tournament over by Flint. Grueling for Molly who had to play fourteen entire games and grueling for us to sit on bleachers all day. Molly’s team took the silver bracket which is something like winning college basketball’s NIT. Still, pretty good since they have only had six practices together and this is the first time they played together in a tournament.
Anyway, there are a number of winter species southeast of here that we need to add to our list. The listserve out of Ann Arbor is always active. Lots of birders and lots of habitat. The Lansing area just is not a hotspot for birding. We are not going to add many more winter species without doing some chasing. Unfortunately the weather the next couple days looks nasty and not conducive to good birding.
Ed's and Lise's Biggish Years 