So, once again I have been terrible about blogging. Mom, the next 20 minutes of reading are for you.
Gracious I might even have to get out a calendar for this one. Luckily I have the constant chattering of Maverick's Purple Martin to keep me company as I type away here. And speaking of Maverick, he had a fantastic Christmas at the Falkowski residence in PA. He got to play in the snow much that I thought he might come in from playing encased in a cube of iced heaven. I also got to do a bit of birding at Presque Isle one day with Sarah. She got to try out her new camera on the ice dunes that are relatively famous there, and I got to hunt down a series of lifers. Life birds at PI for me included: White-winged Scoter (a type of duck that likes it cooooold), Common Goldeneye (another duck and apprpriately named), Black-capped Chckadees (we have Carolina's in the South) and an American Tree Sparrow.
I also got one other lifer on the trip when we went to visit Sarah's friends Angela and Phil, (who are pregnant and due in June) a Common Merganser. We had walked out on Woodcock dam which is relatively near their house and I spotted a whole host of the things congregated out on the (cold) water.
We had a very nice Christmas and I am pretty sure that it snowed enough for me to have my fill until next year (it was 3 degrees when we went out one night!). Above and below are some pictures from Presque Isle and birding on the ice dunes.
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