Oldredbarn on Jan 2, 2016January 2nd, 2016, 7:52 pm EST
Thanks!
Started the new year off right with the winter bird count at my local park...On my birthday no less...My nephew tagged along and we tallied nearly 30 species on a very cold day...
Highlights: Brown Creeper, Tundra Swan, Pileated Woodpecker, Common Golden-eye, Buffleheads, Common Merganser, Coots, and two Bald Eagles scaring the daylights out of the ducks!
Speaking of the B-Day...I stopped at the park office last week to get a 2016 park sticker...The woman behind the counter gave me a senior discount because my license stated that I was going to be 62 on Jan 2nd...Ouch! My first ever senior discount...At least she was nice enough to say I didn't look old enough to get it! :)
Happy New Year all!
Spence
I had placed a small zip lock baggy in my nephews' hands filled with sunflower seeds and it was fun watching him getting mauled by Titmice, Chickadees, and even a White-breasted Nuthatch...The Downy just was a tad too wild to land in his hand but she thought about it.
"Even when my best efforts fail it's a satisfying challenge, and that, after all, is the essence of fly fishing." -Chauncy Lively
"Envy not the man who lives beside the river, but the man the river flows through." Joseph T Heywood