[bcbirdclub] Re: Unusual Yard Bird
- From: Daniel Kendrick <kendridge@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <daryl.owens@xxxxxxxxxxx>, <bcbirdclub@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 20:31:13 -0400
Speaking of an usual 'yard' bird, I actually had an usual house bird. A couple
of years ago when I had the log home in southern Ohio, I had a very unusual
'birding' experience. It was April and on the way home I encountered a jack
knifed logging truck so I had to take the long way home. The long way home
meant passing a great spot along The Ohio Brush Creek so I thought I might just
see some wood ducks. Finally arriving home having not seen any ducks, I opened
my front door was in shock to see lamps knocked over. I thought that a break in
had occurred and my place had been ransacked. With that I took several steps
forward and out of no where a female wood duck flew across my living room
crashing into a large window. Later I found out that the Amish builder had
neglected to place a screen over my chimney opening.
I chased the lady duck around my cabin for awhile until I persuaded her to fly
safety into the freedom of my woods. Outside of a little duck poop in the
house, it was truly a birding sighting for the ages!
Dan
> From: daryl.owens@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bcbirdclub] Unusual Yard Bird
> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 21:25:59 -0400
> To: bcbirdclub@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> > Well I don't have pictures of it and my unusual yard bird isn't that
> > unusual. However, the circumstance of how it became a yard bird are. Last
> > summer, late in the evening, around dusk, I'd been working in the garage.
> > When I lowered the door, noisily I might add, I must've spooked a roosting
> > Ruffed Grouse from a nearby pine tree. When it flew out, it hit a power
> > line and fell to the ground. My daughters and I ran to it and thought it
> > must be dead. When we reached it, we saw it wasn't dead but probably
> > injured. We stood over it for a few minutes not sure what to do. But the
> > Grouse wasn't going to stick around to find out what happened next as it
> > regained its wits, flew away and scared our wits from us!
>
> Daryl Owens
> Oakwood
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