The past few days have been pretty cold, with mostly the normal suspects. This morning I finally got a Common Grackle for the year. But the big news is that birds are really starting to sing, and I’ve added several more species to the audio recording big year. Northern Cardinals are singing every morning, as are Tufted Titmouse, and this week the Song Sparrow and House Finches in my yard started to sing. So even though it seems like the heart of winter (it was 3ºF this morning), the singing birds mean that spring is on its way! Thank goodness!
American Robin in the snow
The past few days I’ve also had groups of American Robin moving through, after being scarce for the past month. Another highlight this morning was a Great Black-backed Gull actually flying over my house with Ring-billed Gulls–and not just a couple miles away through the scope. Too bad I wasn’t quick enough on the camera to get a shot–I’m going to need it for the photo big year!
eBird checklists:
4 Feb 2015
5 Feb 2015
6 Feb 2015 (AM)
