Yes-- the people part of this blog. I've met some interesting ones for sure. Birding has been my in to conversation on walks, my invitation to others to check in. When you have a pair of binoculars around your neck, people know. So other birders say hello with a "seen anything interesting today?" and there begins the conversation.
At Harriman I met a short middle-aged lady-- has a few more years than me-- that knows the birds of that one lake well, but birds nowhere else. Residing nearby, that was here one walking and birding spot. Good enough! There's plenty there to see, including all the waterfowl, Cormorants and Hawks, Great Horneds, the occasional Bald. Huge flocks of redwing blackbirds (at times), a nesting pair of Western Kingbirds on the northern shore in the cottonwoods, occasional waders, plenty of swallows, meadowlarks off the northern shore, and all the songbird migrants that pass through, including the rare-to-the-area Northern Parula...
I'd just noticed the song associated with this little guy when i was exploring the same copse of cottonwoods I've mentioned elsewhere in this blog-- the song was definitely one I didn't know. Then suddenly I was joined by two guys, one right away asking, "Did you see it yet?"
"See what?" Turns out someone else had just posted the siting, and these guys were there looking for the same little dude I was listening to. We found him an all had a good look. The one birder thanking the other over and over for letting him know. I moved on, on my usual clockwise track...
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