Not too much going on birding wise. Actually better stated, Lise and I haven’t been getting much in. Last Saturday I went with Barb down to the drainage pond behind the Visteon complex. This was the headquarters of an auto component manufacturer. Nearby there is a large landfill complex that draws gulls by the thousands. There was a slaty-backed gull reported the day before we went down. There were several hundred gulls when we got to the pond, but no slaty-backed. We did get a lesser black-backed gull which was quite nice. Haven’t heard any reports of slaty-backed since then either.
Visteon pond.
Visteon gulls.
Visteon gull hunters. We were not alone.
Lise was down in Indiana for a couple days. On her way back she hit the ever popular Kinderhook waste water treatment plant and got a Northern shoveler. So our total birding the past week has consisted of an industrial drainage pond and a waste water treatment plant. (I also had a Carolina Wren – Lise)
Not that things aren’t happening around here. There are reports of Bohemian waxwing and common redpoll flocks in the area. And a report late today of a Townsend’s solitaire at a local park. We have just been a little too tied up lately. I think tomorrow it is time to go out and play a bit. A Townsend’s solitaire would be a great bird to get locally.
We’ve been busy and the weather has been too nasty to do much outdoor photography so I have to figure out other ways to have some fun. In a tip of the hat to Gary Larsen’s “The Many Moods of The Irish Setter” I give you the many moods of Fido, the bearded dragon.
Happy
Joyful
Effervescent
Thoughtful
Pensive
Melancholy
Depressed
Suicidal
Food?
Back to sleep.
Ed's and Lise's Biggish Years 