I had a funeral to go to this morning, so I only had two hours in the yard. No new birds for the year, but another flock of 15 Common Mergansers wheeled over the house at 8:30am. I tried to get more photos for the photo big year, but the Eastern Bluebirds stayed out of range and the American Goldfinches wouldn’t cooperate either.
It started to sleet in the late morning and continued with nasty weather all day. By the time I got home I watched the feeders for 40 minutes but no surprises–not sure where the Purple Finches have gone, haven’t seen one for over a week now but they should be around.
Here’s a link to the eBird checklist from this morning. Enough to get my #20BirdMDR but not much else to write home about!
