I’m not sure if the fires have caused my little buddies to scurry downhill earlier than last year, but I don’t recall so many birds returning so swiftly and in such numbers last year.
Today the yard hosted:
- 23 Eurasian Collared-Doves
- 5 Mourning Doves
- 3 Northern Flickers
- 9 Red-winged Blackbirds
- 7 Brewer’s Blackbird
- 2 Brown-headed Cowbirds
- 1 European Starling (just one, crazy right?)
- 14 House Finches
- 32 House Sparrows
- 3 American Goldfinches
- 1 Black-capped Chickadee
- 1 Western Scrub-Jay
- 8 Black-billed Magpies
Today’s quirk? Walking.
Some birds are routine walkers, even ridiculous walkers (think California Quail…), but a flicker, magpie, and dove toodling down Gregory Avenue is an odd sight.
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And that was my Friday – if only the girls would stop screaming singing in the living room with the Fray. Yes, the Fray. Help.