The loud, distinctive CAW! CAW! CAW! of the American Crow is a familiar year-round sound echoing across our wide continent in farm, field, and urban areas. Crows are considered to be among the most intelligent of birds, with their remarkably large brains and observably clever behaviors. Their widespread abundance serves as a valid testimony to [...]
We will not be surveying in December as it will be done during the Coastal Christmas Bird Count on Monday, January 1, 2024. Our surveys will resume in February [...]
A tiny, feisty acrobat is suddenly perceived briskly moving through the dense leafy bushes. At just 4 inches, this active gray insect-hunter appears to be mostly tail that is cocked, fanned and flashed sporadically. This spirited bird’s subdued gray-blue tones are accentuated by a distinctive white eye-ring, snow-white tail edges flashing excitedly in order to [...]
Lena Hayashi, Betty Kanne (eBirder), Dave and Sharon Telford, Jim Kendall, Jim Currie, and Kari Duffield came out this morning. It was Kari’s first time at the Urban Forest though she has helped with other local surveys. It was a cold but calm morning to start with temperatures ranging from the high 50s to mid-60 [...]
Astonishing!! That loud, repetitively piercing wicka-wicka-wicka call directs us to a large, distinctive forest bird showing dark breast polka-dots, an improbable black bib and a long, stiff, spikey tail veritably dripping in red! That “take-no-prisoners” dynamic upstart has most certainly returned! Astonishing! is not a hyperbolic description but rather a quite sober appraisal of a [...]
