This interacive weekly post is starting to gain traction. I love it, keep commenting. For me the best bird of the last week was really a best day of the week. Ken and I got out in Mason County, and as a Mason County lister he didn’t mind taking me out trying to pad my Mason life list in hopes of padding his Mason County year list. Well what a day. I write about it on the Ed’s on th Bird Banter Blog in my Ed’s Birding Notes page. I also talk about it on the last Bird Banter Podcast episode in the introduction. What a day. We found 12 new county birds for me, not that astonishing as my list is not high, and that I’d not birded shorebird migration in the county yet, but we got Ken 3 Mason lifers, bringing him to 200 in the county. First was a Barn Owl at Bayshore Preserve, followed by Brown Pelican and Common Murre at Potlatch State Park. A pretty spiffy day. How about you guys. Leave a comment with your best bird of the last week. Good Birding!
I was in my yard surrounded by metallic electronic tics. I tracked them down to 3 or 4 fledgling Pacific-slope Flycatchers! It sounded amazingly like a bunch of people whose cell phones were signalling something.
Very cool to learn a new juvenile utterance of a common species. Ed
Yesterday had 4 recently fledged Kestrels at the farm in Mason County! Saw all 4 plus their parents and possibly 2 more! And lots of other good stuff. Mason County, is so close, but yet so much safer coronavirus-wise.
Then last night saw Comet Neowise! Look fast, as it’s on its way out. Melissa Sherwood was on the phone with me telling me she could see it, so I went outside, and there it was, much brighter than some of the predictions!