hmmmm

So I have to confess that Dave and I are lie tellers. Yes, lie tellers. We took the snow goose pics to the experts (and not so experts, but opinionated none the less) at whatbird.com for verification. There was some discussion and it turns out that would-be snow goose is a giant faker and is actually more likely a domestic hybrid goose. What does this mean? Who could ever know? Actually...I guess it means that this particular goose has hooked up with a flock and is now living free and it or it's parent was once someone's bird.


Here's the link to the discussion:
http://www.whatbird.com/forums/forums/thread/82555.aspx

There's always interesting discussions going on there and some great pictures from all over N. Am. If you check it out, look for the thread called "Lunch"- that one is my current favourite.



So what's new around here?


Last Saturday we had a field sparrow show up for the first time this year. We also saw a song sparrow for the second time this season and we counted up to three at a time (which is the same high number we saw at any given time last year). These guys are pretty cute and have a lovely little face.



And on Wednesday morning, we were outside with the dogs and a great blue heron flew directly overhead (over Dave's head, while I watched and took a little too long to point it out to Dave, who only caught it as it flew away). This is the first sighting of it this year. We last saw it late December- which seemed really late for it still to be around. We see it fly from the pond behind our place over towards the 16 mile creek and it seems to follow generally the same flight path. I saw it again Thursday morning again around 9:30 a.m. Such a great majestic bird to watch in flight.

Dave is going to get the nesting boxes up this weekend. He put up a new pole to add another box. Hopefully we have equal success to last year, if not even more. The meal worms are coming along so we'll have another food source on hand too. We also have a bag of nest building materials ready too, so we just need the birds to show up!