Back in 2009- 2010 I started birding and blogging and enjoying photography and now after 15-16 years.. Im still at it!
Sometime over the last week or so - this blog clicked its millionth view!!!
To be honest, I think many views are maybe "bots" that scan the web , and some are probably people who might have google imaged a bird species featured on my blog.. but still. Its kinda neat to cross that seven figure threshold.
This morning, (saturday april 18th) I spent a few hours at black oak herrirage park in west windsor.
I had a surprisingly good morning --- there was a warbler fallout at black oak - close to the detroit river - where I saw betwwen 50-100 breeding plumaged yellow rumped warblers, 10 Pine, 2 Yellow and 2 Nashville warblers. Lots of house wrens were singing. First of season blue grey gnatcatchers. I noticed as I was leaving that merlin picked up a Baltimore Oriole!
But of course... Its a weekend and its crappy rainy weather!
Note: I might be the first person to see a Nashville Warbler in Canada in 2026!
Its fun to look up species for "current year" in the springtime in ebird.
As I write this.. Im tempted to twitch a mega rarity in Leamington - the Bakail Teal? (Sp?) but I have been cheap with my gas expeditures lately!
Lastly, I have been checking my rapberry pi bird sound analyzer which is running 24-7 off my back porch. Nothing too rare has been sensed so far... but one neat thing Ive noticed is that BrownThrashers have been very present this April so far!
Anyway.. Thanks for checking out the old blog... even after 15 years and a million pageviews (mostly bots) later...
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