I photographed this colorful American Kestrel yesterday. It was perched on a barbed-wire fence post along Mud Flat Road in Owyhee County.
Alan Gregory
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Daily Archives: April 2, 2021
Re: Another Spring bike ride
While I’m driving alone, I use a digital voice recorder to keep track of the birds I see, then transpose the list to my computer when I get home.
Kit
Kit Struthers
Idaho Falls, ID
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Re: Another Spring bike ride
Confession time! While I normally do exactly what Cheryl said, this time I decided to “cheat.” I carried a pen and a piece of paper and wrote down the birds 5 and 10 at a time. When I did a longer ride last week, I found myself enjoying the birds less as I approached 50 (too much thinking involved). Since I was hoping for a 50+ day. I decided to cheat. But on “normal” rides I will continue to exercise my brain. As most of you know, it was my therapy to cure my “chemo-brain,” after lymphoma. Now if there was only something to cure my “dumbs**t brain.”
Tom
Re: Another Spring bike ride
Tom, RL here.
I tried doing the memory thing for a given place. Didn’t work too well for me, too many birds at some of the places I get to. And being badly scatter-brained nowadays, why I still use pencil and paper as I go, allows me to put notes on my ebird postings later… and I can check for any place corrections. Don’t care for the ebird app, takes too long when I can better use the time to observe and appreciate the time and place about me. Plus you can’t seem to engage the maps and correct for Hotspots one is at.
Do miss your poetic endeavors here on some postings here, Tom. Will there be any more in the near future?
Continued Good Birding (CGB). RL
Re: Another Spring bike ride
Tom-
Agree with Cheryl that it’s very impressive brain work – you set a great example 😊
Reporting that we had a Spotted Towhee in our yard (near you) March 28th – a first for our (literal) yard list though I spotted one nearby years ago- oddly at rest (briefly) in the street. Do we have a theme of parallelism going here, ya think?
Also agree with Cheryl – love your reports and keep it up, please!
Re: Another Spring bike ride
Ditto what Cheryl said! =)
Re: Another Spring bike ride
That list is impressive but even more so because I know you memorize those birds – in order of being seen – and write them all down from memory when you get home. I’ve been trying to do it but it’s hard! Great Brain Exercise! You get a double whammy on your Bike4Birds – Physical and Mental Exercise!
Keep it up! Love your posts!
Cheryl
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