My name is Bill and I am a bird watcher...
Labels: birding in Ohio, spring migration, vesper sparrow
Bill Thompson III is the editor of Bird Watcher's Digest by day. He's also a keen birder, the author of many books, a dad, a field trip leader, an ecotourism consultant, a guitar player, the host of the "This Birding Life" podcast, a regular speaker/performer on the birding festival circuit, a gentleman farmer, and a fungi to be around. His North American life list is somewhere between 667 and 669. His favorite bird is the red-headed woodpecker. His "spark bird" was a snowy owl. He has watched birds in 25 countries and 44 states. But his favorite place to watch birds is on the 80-acre farm he shares with his wife, artist/writer Julie Zickefoose. Some kind person once called Bill "The Pied Piper of Birding" and he has been trying to live up to that moniker ever since.
10 Comments:
Hmmm...
That "week behind schedule" doesn't bode well for the upcoming World Series of Birding next month...
On the contrary, the delay could mean that the WSB participants have an easier time with the early migrants, as they still may be around. Of course that assumes that things improve by then.
In any case trying to predict anything three weeks out it meaningless.
I love this post -- I think that, in truth, you don't care how "behind schedule" you are at Indigo Hill. However long it takes, I think you'd be happy to wait for that sparrow.
Ahhh, a Vesper Sparrow. One of my Top 10 most wanted birds. Could you please Fed-Ex it to me?
~Kathi, who thinks migration is right about on time in SW Ohio
KatDoc:
Go outside TODAY. I think the vespers are slipping thru OH right now--have heard numerous reports.
Bill, I've noticed the delay here as well (southwestern Ontario).
You can almost set your watch to the chipping sparrows' spring return, but this year they're about a week late.
I live in South West lower Michigan. Has anyone from us northern dwellers seen any hummingbirds yet? I haven't.
Anonymous,go to http://www.hummingbirds.net/map.html for reliable range maps.
Birdie90,
Thanks for the info. I will check that out.
How amazing to see this little bird after a decade! Is there any hope it will stay?
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