Cultured Neuron

A good birding hour to start the day, guided by the unstumpable Chip Darmstadt of North Branch Nature Center. Migrants coming through with the cool front. Hits included:

blue-headed vireo
Red-eyed vireo
Chestnut-sided warbler
Blackpoll warbler
Black and white warbler
Tennessee warbler
Redstarts
Bay-breasted warbler
And lots of phoebes, downy woodpeckers,
Chickadees, song sparrows, and the ever-welcome goofy catbird.

#birds #outsideeveryday #NBNC #Vermont #autumn #migration #morningwalk #twitter (at North Branch Nature Center)

North Branch Nature Center even more beautiful than usual today. #vermont #birds #landscape #morninglight #morningwalk #twitter (at North Branch Nature Center)

A pair of pine siskins having a sheltered chit-chat and a snack in my 3d floor office window feeder yesterday. The snow is deep, the air frigid. yet they persist. #birds #snow #vermont #winter (at Montpelier, Vermont)

Snohaus. We have it all decorated for whatever Carolina wrens care to jlin in a few weeks. A beautiful still morning this snow day. The plows are still elsewhere, opening the primary roads. People are walking quietly their quiet dogs down the snowy street. Even the dogs seem entranced by the stillness and the chattering of the chickadees and many, many goldfinch who wintered over. They are all gossiping about the coming spring. #winter # spring #snow #vermont #birds (at Montpelier Historic District)

Filters can’t deal. #morningwalk #birds #vermont #summer

Today’s #morningwalk was in a kayak. Manatees did not show. However, this osprey did, along with:

Great blue herons, many
Flock of glossy Ibis
Other osprey, Hunting, killing, and eating a fish
Green heron
Snowy egret
Roseate spoonbill 
White ibis

and a flight of 10 white pelicans who glided by 25 feet over my head in exacting slant-Iine formation, none of them moving a muscle. Quite majestic.

#birds (at Merritt Island, Florida)

Missing from the photo: the kingfisher who, a second after I took it, dove from his hiding place on the balcony at right center and took a small fish from the stream below. I was distracted by the lively balcony plants. K now back to work. #vermont #Birds #rivers #summer #montp (at Montpelier Historic District)

Fabulous – the first morning bird walk of the year warm enough to move slowly and comfortably, and I was so grateful to the birds, for returning and bringing spring and summer, that I wanted to catch and softly kiss each and every one. Especially the kinglets.

Chickadees
Robin
Juncos
White throated sparrow
Song sparrows
Ruby crowned Kinglets!!!! 2m, 1f, gorgeous and impossible to photograph. Ludicrously busy. 
Six Mallards, being three pairs
Blue Jays
Other sparrows I could not identify
Redwing blackbirds, many

#birdwatching #Birds #Vermont (at north branch nature center)

Track the Fall Migration With Birding Ace Bryan Pfeiffer

A merlin on Monhegan Island, by Bryan Pfeiffer. All rights reserved.

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Bird carcass, seaside rocks
#birds #Maine (at Cushing Island)

Duckwatching on the walk to school, while a fine snow falls. Some days… #winter #birds #ice #water (at North Branch of the Winooski)