Birds

[baronessekat]

So I'm not an avid birding person or anything. but I've got a couple feeders out and I enjoy watching what comes to visit.

I get the usual sparrows, common finches, robins, grackles, starlings and red-wing blackbirds. This year I have only seen one woodpecker and one female cardinal. In passing I spotted a blue jay and the other week I opened the back door to find a juvenile hawk sitting on my back deck.

In winter I got Juncos.

But today was a first for me.

I came home to find two birds in my driveway I had never seen. They kinda looked like sandpipers but not so long in the beak.

When I got out I heard their song and thought I recognized it. So I looked it up and yep...

I had a pair of killdeer sitting in my driveway. I've only ever heard them, never seen them.

It's not much but it was a "oh neat" factor for me.

Comments

[chamfron.livejournal.com]

If you ever get the chance toget to Pennsic before the people all show up, there are a *lot* of Killdeers that nest on the Serengeti. I've always found it kind of sad that we upset so many of them and no one ever knows.

[meirwen.livejournal.com]

I love the little suckers. That black choker thing is sooo sexy. ;-) We have a pair that crosses 19 on your way to the house, and a whole bunch of them live up by The Boss's office. I'm jealous tey showed up in your driveway--but, hey, they clearly know a good chick when they see her!