Category: Birding
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Dark-eyed Junco: Juveniles
If this little one hadn’t come with its parents, I wouldn’t have known that it is a Dark-eyed Junco. Watching a sibling squabble can be quite amusing. Sometimes it all happens too fast. I only get to see their frozen expressions when I transfer the photos into my laptop. These are my favourites. “How many…
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Dark-eyed Junco: Going through changes
For a good few weeks, I watched the four juveniles change. They reminded me of my teenage years – acne face, bad hair days and unexplainable angst all rolled into one body. Yet so carefree and oblivious to what the future holds. When they finally start to resemble their parents, new juveniles arrive. “Hello House…
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Rooftop party for the birds
Jon had two pairs of Converse that he didn’t want to dump in the landfill bin, “Why don’t you use them as bird feeders?” When looking for food, do birds use their sense of smell? If they do, wouldn’t they smell the old shoes rather than the seeds? Maybe their sense of sight would help…
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The beeping bird
Jon and I moved into the Inner Richmond district of San Francisco at the beginning of October 2017. My first feathered friend is a greyish-brown bird who lives two trees away. Its beeps sound like the carbon monoxide detector when it is low on batteries – loud, crisp and repetitive. I affectionately call it Towhee,…
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