Slow birding and injuries
Common Loon with injured leg
My last post was in mid-July and it covered the Summer birding doldrums. I had no idea that only a few days later I would break my ankle and have an even more significant birding slowdown. On Sunday July 28th, I was walking Molly, I took a short-cut to the lake and suddenly found myself on the ground with my foot at an improbable angle. I realized it was broken. I yelled for help and Shawnne pulled the car over so I could crawl in. I won’t bore you with additional details. Needless to say, I am not going to spend my mornings walking around and looking for migrating birds.
It took a while but I am able to sit outside courtesy of a wheelchair. Except for the days I have gone to the doctor I haven’t been able to take pictures away from the house. So, I have had no opportunity to take duck or swan photos, nor can I take out the telescope and scan our lake for birds.
It isn’t a total loss. Migration has started for real. We had an inch and a half of rain on Saturday. That brought the worms to the surface and we had bunch of Northern Flickers on Saturday and Sunday. It was a bit too dark to get a great photo but I posted what I had.
I am posting a few photos from August. Again not great but good considering the lighting and distance.
 Northern Flicker 9/15/13 |
 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 9/4/13 |
 Kingfisher 8/28/13 |
 Osprey 8/29/13 |
Themocracy
Yes, it has been a hard month & half with Jerry not being able to walk. He is healing slowly. I am hoping we can go for bird drives again soon to see ducks and other migrating birds. At least we live on a lake and we saw an American White Pelican today. Hope to see Trumpeter Swans soon on our lake as well as some nice migrating sparrows. The sparrows usually grace our feeders. Autumn is coming in very fast.