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November Backyard Bird Race and Daily Bucket [1]
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Date: 2022-12-10
What have you been thankful for so far this year as far as your birding and nature adventures?
We each watch for birds in our yard or patches — however, and how many, you wish to define that to be — and keep a list of them to share each month in the Bird Race diary in some way. We will each be keeping track of our own bird lists. Ebird is a very easy way to do that. Or you can write them down in a notebook. Or you can take pictures and add them to a folder on your computer.
Harris’ Sparrow
There are no “rules” for the Bird Race beyond what you set for yourself. Some ideas for information that you might share here as part of the conversation, any combinations of: A total list or count of birds you have seen: monthly, year to date, life
New birds you have seen, since the last tally
Interesting behavior you have seen
Any patterns or changes in patterns
General location in the country
Type of habitat
Bird ID sites or articles you have found helpful, general or bird family specific
Equipment you use, how you use it, why you got it, where you got it, how to maintain and care for it
Photo processing tips and storage/display sites If you move or travel during the year, it would be very interesting to compare the backyard birds you see in different settings!
Pacific Wren
Terminology Patch — A favorite area to bird usually not your immediate backyard
Observation — Seeing or hearing a bird that you can positively ID
Bushtit
Black Scoter
The Daily Bucket is a nature refuge. We amicably discuss animals, weather, climate, soil, plants, waters and note life’s patterns spinning around us. We invite you to note what you are seeing around you in your own part of the world, and to share your observations in the comments below.
Spotted Towhee
My Yard is the area around my apartment complex. My Patch is my yard plus a nearby park with ponds. My other groupings are County, State, US and above.
November was a very good month for being so late in the year for adding new birds to my lists. My expectations were only a couple of birds for the rest of the year not a handful for the month.
I had no additions to my yard list, so the total stays at 28.
I added 9 birds to my patch sightings, (Bonaparte’s Gull, Common Loon, Eared Grebe, Lincoln’s Sparrow, Northern Mockingbird, Red-winged Blackbird, Spotted Towhee, Swamp Sparrow and White-crowned Sparrow) bringing the total to 57.
Swamp Sparrow
I added 5 birds to my county and state lists, (Black Scoter, Harris’s Sparrow, Pacific Wren, Swamp Sparrow and White-throated Sparrow), bringing the totals to 233 and 235 respectively.
My country and world lists saw 4 new additions, (Black Scoter, Harris’s Sparrow, Swamp Sparrow and White-throated Sparrow), bringing the totals to 260.
What finds did you have? Any new unique observations of behavior or inter species interactions? Any new information on a species to share with us?
Next Bird Race report day is January 14, 2023. It will be for the final totals for 2022.
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