I heard a new song from a bird in our tree off of our deck. After locating the bird, I thought it looked like a female Grosbeak until I saw the black bib beneath its yellowish-orange beak. I started looking in my bird book and I think it’s a Harris’s Sparrow. There were two (male&female?) and they both looked the same. Could it be? On a funny note, I also had a Junco in our yard with a white head.:???:
Great time of year to see all kinds of different birds as they migrate North. Keep those feeders full! Too bad you didn’t get a photo of that Junco. That would have been cool to see. (I love how Junco’s jump along the ground under the feeder scratching at the old seed…Smart birds!)
Spied the first Baltimore Oriole at Everts Sunday. Summer is here.
Never seen a Harris’s Sparrow before…but then I haven’t been taking the time to stop, smell the roses and look at birds much.
I had a Harris Sparrow hang around one of my feeders for a week or so while migrating about a decade ago. They are cool birds. When you said black bib, I was going to suggest that as an ID.
Cool bird! We don’t get them too often but the wife got a nice shot of one a couple years ago.
Found a couple of those hanging oriole nests back in Funk’s cut one year down on the river. Sunday there were orioles down at HokSiLa landing in Lake City. Any pelicans up there yet BK or is it probably too early yet?
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Pelicans? Oh yes.
Pool 3 has them in the back waters and we’ve seen flocks(?) catching drafts above everts as well as formations flying by.
Crank bait, that’s it. Roosterrouster, I did get a picture on my phone but I couldn’t get too close. So, you really have to enlarge it to see it.
Was at our Lake Vermilion cabin this week shoveling snow off the roof and thought I’d take a break and say ‘hi’ to some of the friends we’ve made up there. A little seed and a little patience over the years has brought us to this point. They follow us around the yard, landing on our heads and shoulders wanting seeds or peanuts.
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