A Nelson’s Sparrow was found along the lakefront on May 17th. It was seen in the tall grasses near a fallen tree, along the rocks. When I arrived, there were a couple of people looking at one and as I walked up, I flushed another. After that, I think I flushed another one! There were at least 2 of them and quite possibly 3. The grassy area was already so tall, and those birds move extremely fast through it, it’s tough to find them. The one bird kept circling back to the fallen tree and I just waited around for it to show itself a few times. I never got an unobstructed view, as is usually the case with these birds, but plenty of decent looks. Photos below are from 5/17 in the late afternoon. Enjoy!
Unfortunately, for those of you who look forward to my spring migration photos each year, this is one of my last posts. My new puppy yanked my laptop off the table and smashed my external hard drive. The 40,000 photos I took the during my 3-week vacation are all gone! I did manage to get out a few days this week for some lingering birds, but nothing close to what I had. Hopefully the fall migration will make up for it.
How absolutely devastating. I’m sorry to hear about your photo tragedy and loss. How horrific for you. While we enjoy seeing your efforts I can only imagine how you’re feeling. Luckily we have your impressive gallery to look back at.
Thank you, Karie, I appreciate it! I do have a few warbler shots of some of the more uncommon or rare ones. So, I’ll be able to share those.
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Sorry…l meant to endorse an external hard drive and off-site storage system. I use BackBlaze for the latter.
Redundancy in storage is essential as we all find out the hard way.
Beautiful Sparrow!!!
Thank you. I have sent it in. It’s a read/write head issue. The worst part is, I have 2 hard drives and one is just for backup. However, I haven’t backed up since 1/27/24! I will be switching over to SSD and not have to worry about it.
Good thing puppies are so adorable! Cuteness (and love) covers a multitude of sins (and accidents!)! Thank you for the steady stream of beautiful bird pictures!
Jim Hess
They sure are! Can blame her all I want, but I shouldn’t have left the cord accessible. You are welcome. Thank you Jim!