Tag: Anna’s Hummingbird

Highs and lows

Backyard Birding Birding Trips Lunch Walks

Spring, spring, spring! Migration is happening and I’m still slowly recovering from ankle surgery. The cast is off, the boot is on, but I still can’t walk. Yet. But that doesn’t mean I can’t look at birds. At least those accessible from flat ground. Which is why I was so happy to get a message…

By Audrey March 26, 2018 1

Backseat Birding

Backyard Birding Birding Trips

Oof. Ankle surgery has happened. It’s been rough, but it’s getting better. The things that make it less rough are reading about birds, looking at birds outside the window, and thinking about birds. The yard birds have been okay, the best being a Barred Owl calling outside the week before surgery. Other than that, besides a…

By Audrey March 6, 2018 6

Whitaker Ponds Nature Park

Birding Trips Why Bird

One of my favorite parks is Whitaker Ponds Nature Park. Ever since my first time there I knew it was a special place. It’s a small (but productive) park at 24 acres with a 1/2-mile flat loop trail. Completely surrounded by urban land, it is a mini-oasis for birds. And for myself. Here I saw my first Common Merganser, Red-winged Blackbird, Common Goldeneye,…

By Audrey January 26, 2018 2