Wednesday, April 21, 2004

Spring Migration

  Ruby-Crowned Kinglet (www.tekipaki.jp/~texbird/ na_bird11.htm)

I get home from work in the early afternoon on Wednesdays, so today I organized some materials for my classes tomorrow and then tossed on my sweatshirt to go for a walk, only to discover that it was pouring.  So I did some more work, and finally went out in what was an intense sprinkle. 

It was worth it -- the spring bird migration has begun in earnest.  In one tree at the lake: a ruby-crowned kinglet, a white-throated sparrow, and a yellow-rumped warbler (better known as a butterbutt).  It's gray and foggy and wet out there, but the birds are arriving!

Walked: 3 miles.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Where do you live?  It sounds like you have great places to walk.