This pathetically awful photo was the only Bobolink shot I got the chance to take yesterday. I am posting it only as a record. Checking through the various Bobolink photos I have in my Flickr album, 26 May (2019) was the earliest sighting of this species that I have seen.
The annual May Species Count for our area started at 6:30 am, but I managed to get to the area a bit early (around 6:10 am) so that I could check for Wilson's Snipes at one of the locations. Saw and photographed two and then heard a third one. Normally, I am never up and ready at such an unearthly hour! The secret for yesterday was that I simply stayed up all night. I had been busy on my computer till late at night and then was concerned that if I did go to bed, I would very likely sleep right thrrough my alarm clocks that were set for 4:00 am.
Our group of three people stopped at seven different locations during the day, gradually working our way further west till we reached highway 762. One of our first stops was enjoying Barb's acreage. Though I didn't get any decent bird shots, I was happy to see an American Goldfinch and an Evening Grosbeak.
Quite a few of the birds were not seen by me - I just don't have the experience of spotting small birds flitting about in the trees. My knowledge of bird songs is extremely poor, too.
The weather was beautiful all day, apart from the very low cloud early in the morning. The two 'real' birders did a great job of finding 65 or 66 bird species. Perhaps the highlight -certainly for me - was finding two Bobolinks, though I only saw one of them. Far away, but I have posted a really bad photo just as a record of the sighting. A great day! There are a lot of much better images of these beautiful birds in my Bobolink album.
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