Birders gathered on a residential street to gawk at a Townsend's Solitaire. Usually this freaks out the whole neighborhood... got to love it.
However... we're off to a good start with our first lifer of 2011 on a not-too-shabby January 2. We tried for a reported dovekie on our New Years Day excursion to the seacoast and came up empty handed but on Sunday we drove a little over a half-hour to find a Townsend's Solitaire (west coast relative of the robin) in Bow. A big group of geeky birders was assembled in front of some huge houses, all gawking through their ginormous spotting scopes and camera lenses, no doubt giving the residents the total creeps... in any case, it wasn't too difficult to locate the poor bird once we found the right street. Funny, those birders are... per the usual, we were the youngest 4 people there by several decades (a good half century in Haley's & Aiden's cases), and everyone enjoyed "spotting" an incredibly cute and smiley 5 month old birder in addition to the solitaire. Aiden looked for dinosaurs through his binos, and got lots of hints from the assembled crew. How long do you think we have until they both realize their parents are crazy?
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Not long. I will be sure to inform them very shortly
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