March 13, 2006
Campus birding
Today started out bright and sunny, so I decided to do a bit a pre-work birding on campus. I checked out a spot where Black Woodpecker (Pic noir) has bred in previous years and luckily, I soon heard a male giving his 'kleeeee' call.
Darned branches!
I've started working on the backlog of common European birds I don't have photos of. Today's targets were this male Blackbird (Merle noir)...
... a Starling (Etourneau sansonnet)...
... and a Chaffinch (Pinson des arbres).
In the evening I spotted this female Hawfinch (Grosbec casse-noyaux), who appeared to have mottled white feathers on the back, wings and rump - is she a partial albino or is this just part of moult?
