Tag: Red-necked Grebe

5MR Booms and Busts

It’s fall! The air is cooler, the leaves are changing colors, and shorebirds are on their way back south. There are only three months left to find 5MR birds this year. Since I’ve last checked in, I’ve had a few hits and misses. Many of the hits were at a place in Portland with terrible…

By Audrey October 10, 2019 4

Last weekend

The birds and beers were so good in Astoria the weekend before, I thought for my last trip before surgery, why not go back? Tomas agreed as he’d missed out, and this time he could go on a mountain biking trip while I birded. We left early Saturday morning and after stocking up at a…

By Audrey February 21, 2018 0

New Year’s birding

January 1st 2018 started with a nice sunrise and a Song Sparrow scratching leaves in our garden in the dark as I peeked my head outside the door. I didn’t mean to bird as hard as I did on day 1, but first of year birding is too exciting. Every bird is new, every one a…

By Audrey January 6, 2018 3