2006-04-13, 05:01 PM — i want to take back that treefrog statement
Poor eagle. It's so windy on the eaglecam today... makes me feel bad for the gorgeous weather we had. But then again, I was out there in the pouring rain yesterday, so every bird gets her turn, I guess.
Saw a garter snake and the biggest painted turtle I've ever seen today. Garter snake even came out for my class. Turtle was there in the morning, and I'm not quite believed by some yet since I was the only one who saw it. But that's all right, I just hope the turtle sticks around.
I also realized this afternoon as I was driving home that I misidentified some frogs (quite stupidly) for a passerby. I hate misidentifying things. I may never see that guy again, but it will stick at the back of my head, an embarrassment of misinformation, and I will have to be careful not to make the same mistake again.
2006-04-09, 07:14 PM — recording spring
I'm going to start keeping a written record of when and where I see birds/etc. coming back in the spring. I think it's the sort of thing that might be useful, or at least interesting, someday.
For now I'll keep it here, because it's spring and I need to start. But next week I'm going to get a book, I think, dedicated to that only. My grandfather had one and my mother has one, and I figure it's at least time for me to start mine.
Anyway. Fishy and I spent a lovely afternoon birding, after I got back from work and he moved Kam. We went over to Floradale first, where we saw some widgeons and probably the best look at a male green-winged teal I've ever gotten. I don't know what's up with the teals this year, they're everywhere. Except I don't think I've seen a blue-winged teal yet, and I usually see those everywhere. It's odd.
Anyways, we came back to the lookout tower at Laurel Creek and saw many, many things. Mallards and Canadian Geese, of course. Gulls. And: green-winged teals, widgeons, redheads, gadwalls, black ducks, scaups, ring-necked ducks, and one solitary northern shoveler, which I am very pleased about. I like seeing those guys.
All in all, a very productive day...
2006-04-09, 08:20 AM — post your adverts here!
Discovered a not-so-cool little thing called "blog-spamming" last night, while going through some of my old entries. Someone decides to add a series of comments with basically inane phrases like: "Nice job!" "Awesome!" "That's great!" all with different names, and then somewhere down the line puts in "Barcelona Hotels!" Or insert other vacation destination, ad for viagra, etc.
At first I was all "What the hell?" and then fishy told me what was going on. Then, he kindly erased 600 extraneous messages from my comments. 600! And there are still more! People, it's not like I have more than ten others reading my website, much less my comments from a year ago. I need to keep on top of that, I guess. It irritates me. I am not a billboard.
In other news, saw my first phoebe of the year yesterday at the storm water management pond. I was over there doing some recon for a program I am doing Monday. I have a feeling I am going to learn a lot more about pond life very, very quickly. It will be kind of embarrassing if a bunch of grade eight students know more than me.