Greetings All:
This is nothing to get excited about but ... all the extra time I have been
spending in my yard this year is (sort of) paying off.
Yesterday evening, as I was washing and filling the hummingbird feeders, I
picked up my first adult female Black-chinned Hummingbird of the year.
With any luck there will some nesting in the yard this spring.
Shortly thereafter a Killdeer flew over. This would not be terribly
exciting for most folk, I suppose, but it is only the third time in over
ten years that I have seen a Killdeer from my yard.
Much more normal for this time of year: some funky calls from above, a
little bit later, allowed me to get my binoculars on a brace of overflying
Upland Sandpipers. This is a species I hear from the yard annually but
rarely see.
In all likelihood, these two species will be my entire shorebird list for
the yard this year:)
Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock