[birdky] Robins, etc.

For the last few days, Robins have been a diffuse background every where I go. 
Blackbirds come and go in tight knit flocks, here one minute, gone the next. 
The Robins are everywhere and always, just a few paces ahead and on every side, 
in each tree and bush, in every meadow and in the grain fields beyond as far 
out as my binoculars will reach, never thick anywhere, but one or two 
everywhere. 
  A few Rusty Blackbirds were among yesterday's blackbird flocks, plus 
grackles, cowbirds, red-wings & starlings.
  Saw an Eurasian Collared Dove at a new spot yesterday, on right-of way of 
U.S. 79 along about the Bingo Barn. Also a very tame pair in Allensville on the 
ground by the quanset hut.
  On Bobwhites - I can't recall seeing any in January, but I've flushed covies 
twice this month. Once while I was tossing broken tree limbs onto a brush pile 
after the ice storm and once in a woods on an adjoining farm.
  I have now seen the first ever for my area wintering Red-shouldered Hawk 11 
times. The last time was the best. I was approaching one of my ponds by way of 
a high berm left by a track hoe. The hawk was perched on the bank at the foot 
of the berm. When it flew I got a good close up look at the top of its back.
Frank Lyne frank@xxxxxxxxxxx near Dot in Logan County

Other related posts: