Birds and Foliage

First off, sorry for no post last week. I didn’t drop off the face of the earth …. literally, anyway. We had a week-long staycation and I didn’t think about being productive or responsible at ALL.

It was awesome.

Moving on.

Birding has … become more difficult.

Number one? It’s freaking hot. Not like, Texas hot? But definitely hot enough that hanging around outside staring into the sun-baked sky for hours on end doesn’t sound like a fantastic idea.

Number two? All the trees got their leaves. Which is beautiful? But it means that birds are vague sounds and shapes amidst a visual cacaphony of green.

We went birding recently and gave up in disgust after seeing three unidentified birds and not having the energy to look them up in the book. We’ll not even discuss the difficulty of getting the camera to focus on the not-leaf bird hiding behind three layers of very-much-leaves overgrowth.

Bah! And Humbug, even!

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