My husband, Mr. D, and I went birding. Mr. D is definitely not a birder. He jogs. So he functions like my scout telling me where he saw birds and then I get to go later with him to find out exactly what he saw.
It was around 2:30 pm, overcast and intermittently windy with some sprinkling.
We hiked through trails in a Douglas Fir forest.
The highlight was coming across a mixed flock foraging.
Golden-crowned Kinglet (Regulus satrapa)
Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus )
Brown Creeper (Certhia americana)
When I looked them up, it was great to find out that the mysterious "chi-chi-chi" call that eluded me was the Golden-crowned Kinglet's call.
All were discovered flitting low around or through a 3x4' shrub. The Brown Ceeper was doing its creeping thing, up and up a tree trunk.
Mr. D insisted that I could go closer without bothering the birds. (He got impatient with my attempts to Attenborough it. Mr. D's more like the Crocodile Hunter in approaching wildlife.)
It was cool and Mr. D got first spotting.
"It's a Panda Bird! Look-look-look!" (The Chickadee)
And then the rest of them just popped out of the shrubs and stayed long enough to be seen.
It was around 2:30 pm, overcast and intermittently windy with some sprinkling.
We hiked through trails in a Douglas Fir forest.
The highlight was coming across a mixed flock foraging.
Golden-crowned Kinglet (Regulus satrapa)
Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus )
Brown Creeper (Certhia americana)
When I looked them up, it was great to find out that the mysterious "chi-chi-chi" call that eluded me was the Golden-crowned Kinglet's call.
All were discovered flitting low around or through a 3x4' shrub. The Brown Ceeper was doing its creeping thing, up and up a tree trunk.
Mr. D insisted that I could go closer without bothering the birds. (He got impatient with my attempts to Attenborough it. Mr. D's more like the Crocodile Hunter in approaching wildlife.)
It was cool and Mr. D got first spotting.
"It's a Panda Bird! Look-look-look!" (The Chickadee)
And then the rest of them just popped out of the shrubs and stayed long enough to be seen.