The
birds are on the move! Aah, music to my ears as it is for any passionate
birder. This weekend, my compact
Leica Ultravid 10x25 Bl binocular got a workout. Waterfowl in good variety have been arriving all week and that is a welcome change from seeing Mallards, only, all winter. The weekend turned up Buffleheads, Red-breasted Mergansers, Redheads, Greater and Lesser Scaup, a Ruddy or two and, a first for me on this suburban lake, a Goldeneye. On the songbird front, our winter birds are now being joined with migrating and summer resident species. Interesting to see newly arrived Song Sparrows and Savannah Sparrows in the same location as our wintering Juncos and Tree Sparrows. A report from friends back home in central Nebraska, tells me the Sandhill Cranes are there in great numbers, as is usual for mid-March. If it wasn't such a long bike ride, I'd grab my
spotting scope and see it for myself.