Pinewood
New York correspondent
Freez and defrost
Hello all,
Wednesday night we had a great deal of rain. Yesterday morning it -5ºC. This weather is more typical of the end of the month.
Last week's best birds were my first field sparrow of the season and a sparrowhawk, or American kestrel. I saw the field sparrow again, tody, in the company of a bird watcher from California, She was so happy to have a life bird.
I spotted the kestrel high in a tree across the Great Lawn. With only an 8x I had difficulty perceiving the markings. A photographer came along with a long lens on his camera. He thought it might be a merlin. A passerby came along and asked what we had seen. As we discussed it, the passerby said, "It is really something the way you two argue." The photographer decided that it was a kestrel.
Today, I managed to see both red breasted and white breasted nuhatches. I had not seen red breasted nuthatch in quite a while. I have been seeing that great blue heron thrice in the last week. On two occasions it was sitting on dry land, probably because of the cold.
Hello all,
Wednesday night we had a great deal of rain. Yesterday morning it -5ºC. This weather is more typical of the end of the month.
Last week's best birds were my first field sparrow of the season and a sparrowhawk, or American kestrel. I saw the field sparrow again, tody, in the company of a bird watcher from California, She was so happy to have a life bird.
I spotted the kestrel high in a tree across the Great Lawn. With only an 8x I had difficulty perceiving the markings. A photographer came along with a long lens on his camera. He thought it might be a merlin. A passerby came along and asked what we had seen. As we discussed it, the passerby said, "It is really something the way you two argue." The photographer decided that it was a kestrel.
Today, I managed to see both red breasted and white breasted nuhatches. I had not seen red breasted nuthatch in quite a while. I have been seeing that great blue heron thrice in the last week. On two occasions it was sitting on dry land, probably because of the cold.