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Mountain Bluebird

bike4birds
 

I’m not sure how big a deal this is for everyone else, but my wife, Susan, found a Mountain Bluebird today. I think it may be my first of the year, not just of the season. The bird was at the south end of Veterans Park, where the greenbelt path is separated from the park by a ditch with a wooden footbridge. We saw the bird on the way out on our (cold) ride, but I didn’t see it on the way back. It was perched on a large stalk of vegetation along the ditch and seemed tolerant of the people passing by on the greenbelt path.

Lots of ducks have arrived, hopefully to stay. Gadwalls are suddenly common, Hooded Mergansers are daily, and Common Goldeneye have started to hang out at Silver Lake. Plus, I saw an Osprey in the last week, but he was a one hit wonder.
Stephanie Youngerman
 

Tom,
My sister and I were walking in the same area you describe and saw the Mountain Bluebird on a spent wooly mullein stalk by the empty canal. I was hoping you and Susan would see it!
Stephanie

On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 4:03 PM bike4birds <tmccabe9@...> wrote:

I’m not sure how big a deal this is for everyone else, but my wife, Susan, found a Mountain Bluebird today. I think it may be my first of the year, not just of the season. The bird was at the south end of Veterans Park, where the greenbelt path is separated from the park by a ditch with a wooden footbridge. We saw the bird on the way out on our (cold) ride, but I didn’t see it on the way back. It was perched on a large stalk of vegetation along the ditch and seemed tolerant of the people passing by on the greenbelt path.

Lots of ducks have arrived, hopefully to stay. Gadwalls are suddenly common, Hooded Mergansers are daily, and Common Goldeneye have started to hang out at Silver Lake. Plus, I saw an Osprey in the last week, but he was a one hit wonder.
bike4birds
 

Thank you for identifying the “large stalk of vegetation” as a wooly mullein stalk. You have expanded my horizons. I see them everywhere, but I had no name for them. Thanks. Tom

 

From: IBLE@groups.io <IBLE@groups.io> On Behalf Of Stephanie Youngerman
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2022 4:26 PM
To: IBLE@groups.io
Subject: Re: [IBLE] Mountain Bluebird

 

Tom,

My sister and I were walking in the same area you describe and saw the Mountain Bluebird on a spent wooly mullein stalk by the empty canal. I was hoping you and Susan would see it!

Stephanie

 

On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 4:03 PM bike4birds <tmccabe9@...> wrote:

I’m not sure how big a deal this is for everyone else, but my wife, Susan, found a Mountain Bluebird today. I think it may be my first of the year, not just of the season. The bird was at the south end of Veterans Park, where the greenbelt path is separated from the park by a ditch with a wooden footbridge. We saw the bird on the way out on our (cold) ride, but I didn’t see it on the way back. It was perched on a large stalk of vegetation along the ditch and seemed tolerant of the people passing by on the greenbelt path.

Lots of ducks have arrived, hopefully to stay. Gadwalls are suddenly common, Hooded Mergansers are daily, and Common Goldeneye have started to hang out at Silver Lake. Plus, I saw an Osprey in the last week, but he was a one hit wonder.
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