Winter Solstice Eve

Goodness gracious sakes alive! Tomorrow is Winter Solstice (WS)plus the first ever CB WS Bird Count. And we are ready. Are we ? Except nobody is fixing to stay up all night listening for owls. So if any owls get counted, they are going to need to get real close outside a window and wake somebody up. Not unheard of.


Today we spent much of the day practicing. Like, for example, we needed to practice counting goldfinches. Yes. We had twain goldfinch species present today with American goldfinches trying to horn in on the seed socks as seen here. That's an American on top with four lessers below.

We have also documented a bit of interspecific aggression. An American, not this one, scared two lessers off the other sock. Not shown. Mercy!