The Lookout! well that is a simple and very appropriate name- I love it! So help me with the myiarchus flycatcher dusky-capped. What makes it so, based on some of the other species you might encounter there, and what would those be? Are you still conducting morning pj birding at the house, then moving to the lookout?
Thanks Dawn! Yes, PJ birding in the morning first then to the Lookout porch (and maybe some writing). Or, I might start at the Lookout (with coffee) if I camp out there. You remember the Dusky-capped we saw at Scotia Canyon? It's always that haunting, melancholy whistle that alerts me to them. They are the smallest of the three Myiarchus flycatchers we have here all summer (Ash-throated and Brown-crested). This was the first time I got a decent photo!
“All this at eye level. It’s as if I’m seeing birds for the first time.”
Ah, you have finally opened your gift from the Lookout! In the world of Fairytales perhaps there might be a greeting card left on your chair, a photograph of the Hermit Thrush on front.
“Thank you for building me , I have a perfect view!Come ,have a seat . We will have many wonderful years together.”
What a stunning first paragraph, Ken. And beautiful photographs. I think there just might be a bit of fairy dust sprinkling. Here in VT, it has been one continuous Warbler celebration. All sorts of festivities going on in the newly leafed trees. Awe, give him a break, poor Samuel W. getting bit by a rattlesnake in 1849, hell he almost died in those woods and probably had to have some guy slice the bite and suck out the venom. Or maybe he did it himself. Then he had to find his way back home and writhe in pain for days on end.
P.S. Check your email and let me know if you received one from me .Probably last week or so.
Thanks for this, Lor! Yes, we have our own warbler celebration...just yesterday the season's first Red-faced Warbler put in an appearance! Species #95 for the month!
If all the species named after people are going to get renamed (as I've heard they are going to be over there in the US) then the Woodhouse Scrub Jay may well end up being the Arizona Scrub Jay.
It is, Juliet! And I'm just discovering it. Yes, the name changes are coming, I hear. We only have one bird named for Arizona--a woodpecker that lives mostly in Mexico!
The Lookout! well that is a simple and very appropriate name- I love it! So help me with the myiarchus flycatcher dusky-capped. What makes it so, based on some of the other species you might encounter there, and what would those be? Are you still conducting morning pj birding at the house, then moving to the lookout?
Thanks Dawn! Yes, PJ birding in the morning first then to the Lookout porch (and maybe some writing). Or, I might start at the Lookout (with coffee) if I camp out there. You remember the Dusky-capped we saw at Scotia Canyon? It's always that haunting, melancholy whistle that alerts me to them. They are the smallest of the three Myiarchus flycatchers we have here all summer (Ash-throated and Brown-crested). This was the first time I got a decent photo!
“All this at eye level. It’s as if I’m seeing birds for the first time.”
Ah, you have finally opened your gift from the Lookout! In the world of Fairytales perhaps there might be a greeting card left on your chair, a photograph of the Hermit Thrush on front.
“Thank you for building me , I have a perfect view!Come ,have a seat . We will have many wonderful years together.”
What a stunning first paragraph, Ken. And beautiful photographs. I think there just might be a bit of fairy dust sprinkling. Here in VT, it has been one continuous Warbler celebration. All sorts of festivities going on in the newly leafed trees. Awe, give him a break, poor Samuel W. getting bit by a rattlesnake in 1849, hell he almost died in those woods and probably had to have some guy slice the bite and suck out the venom. Or maybe he did it himself. Then he had to find his way back home and writhe in pain for days on end.
P.S. Check your email and let me know if you received one from me .Probably last week or so.
Thanks for this, Lor! Yes, we have our own warbler celebration...just yesterday the season's first Red-faced Warbler put in an appearance! Species #95 for the month!
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The photos are fabulous!! You are going to have so much fun in that lookout.
Thanks Arlene! I am! Come join me the next time you're in Bisbee!
That's a great place for birdwatching.
If all the species named after people are going to get renamed (as I've heard they are going to be over there in the US) then the Woodhouse Scrub Jay may well end up being the Arizona Scrub Jay.
It is, Juliet! And I'm just discovering it. Yes, the name changes are coming, I hear. We only have one bird named for Arizona--a woodpecker that lives mostly in Mexico!