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 [...]
Lena Hayashi, Betty Kanne (eBirder), Dave and Sharon Telford, Jim Kendall, Nancy Kappelmann, Brenda Sabin, and Deborah Brin came out this morning. We welcomed back Brenda Sabin and were delighted to have Deborah Brin join us for the first time. It was a beautiful sunny, calm, and clear day with temperatures ranging from the mid-60s [...]
Dynamic flashes of yellow and black flitting through the treetops and leafy bushes announce the presence of a vibrantly colorful winter visitor, the Townsend’s Warbler. At a less than 5” in length, this diminutive, active feeder continuously gleans insects, spiders and moth larvae from the leaves and branches in densely forested environments. It travels about [...]
Lena Hayashi, Betty Kanne (eBirder), Dave and Sharon Telford, Jim Kendall, and Jim Currie were the surveyors. We began at 7:30 AM. It was a humid, initially overcast day in the mid-70s. The species count continues to be low this month now that breeding season is over, and most birds stop singing and molt their [...]
