Comments on: Natural History https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/02/natural-history/ Mon, 03 Jan 2011 19:02:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: MadScientist https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/02/natural-history/#comment-497258 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 19:02:36 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/02/natural-history/#comment-497258 I got more goddamned pigeons. There were so many of them there appeared to be a white waterfall originating from the side of a building. I did see a corvid later in the day though; I can’t positively identify it because I’m not familiar with the particular species – there is no doubt it’s a corvid though. I have a suspicion that most birds where I’m currently at seek warmer places in the winter.

]]> By: Pete Moulton https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/02/natural-history/#comment-497257 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:01:43 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/02/natural-history/#comment-497257 Long-billed Dowitcher, which is now ensconced as my facebook avatar for this year.

]]> By: Charles Sullivan https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/02/natural-history/#comment-497256 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 09:36:46 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/02/natural-history/#comment-497256 Nothing, but the sound of cold screaming finches.

]]> By: Doug Alder https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/02/natural-history/#comment-497255 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:01:01 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/02/natural-history/#comment-497255 Crows here too – most of the birds around at this time of the year in Trail are crows. Some pigeons, a few gulls, occasional osprey and other raptors. Something flew off my bird feeder this morning – too fast for good ID but I think it was a Black Capped Chickadee

]]> By: Don Smith https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/02/natural-history/#comment-497254 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 04:36:35 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/02/natural-history/#comment-497254 A pair of cardinals that nest in a large bush right outside my kitchen window. See them almost every morning.

]]> By: Stephanie Z https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/02/natural-history/#comment-497253 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 04:20:06 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/02/natural-history/#comment-497253 I expect my first several thousand birds to be crows, but that’s one of the joys (truly) of living where I do and walking to work.

]]> By: howard.peirce https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/02/natural-history/#comment-497252 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 04:08:54 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/02/natural-history/#comment-497252 I was fast asleep, having done both traditions of staying up way late and drinking too much alcohol.

About 6:30 AM, an American crow, right outside my window, was apparently pissed off about something. God knows what his deal was, given his (or her) urban Human situation, but there’s my first bird of 2011, for what it’s worth.

]]> By: gwen https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/02/natural-history/#comment-497251 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 03:22:07 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/02/natural-history/#comment-497251 My first bird was a starling. So was my second, third and forth….probably up to my tenth..at least. They are awful pests in my neighborhood. I was hoping to see a hummer or mockingbird, or perhaps a woodpecker…perhaps tomorrow!

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