It get's a lot easier after a few times though. I brought my bird book today though - and good thing I did! I saw a red-bellied woodpecker, Melanerpes carolinus:
and a yellow-rumped warbler, Dendroica coronata:
At first when I saw the warbler I though 'Oh, sparrow' because it was a small puffed brownish slightly stripey thing and I saw it had yellow. But then I noticed the bill and I immediately got excited. Then I saw it had a yellow patch on its butt!
Small triumphs :)
Small triumphs :)
I really need to clean out my room at some point tomorrow...O lordy. I have sent 17 applications out. Two have very close deadlines and no one has emailed or called yet so I take it those are not going to work out...so that make 15. I hope someone out there likes me. I emailed one job I was interested in and the lady said they had over 80 applicants apply. 80. Well, there was that Oregon job last year that had over 150 and they offered it to me so that was a good sign. But still, 80 applicants. How to make one stand out; I have decent experience but I don't know if it is going to make me stick out in the crowd. There is one job that is a short stint down in Florida. If I get that I might be able to pull off two field excursions before grad school! I even called the job contact, like 6 times now. I left a message the first time but he is never in! It would be so nice to be down in FL for the bulk of the winter season! Ok, well. I have a strong urge to watch Under the Tuscan Sun. No surprise it seems quite fitting right now...
Anyways I went to Delaware with Lobster and Nabisco to see some bald eagles. Nabisco isn't a birder but likes nature and we saw so many! I took some really bad shots with my camera! Here is one:
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