For Mary

[jay]

While doing a ground-truth survey this afternoon, saw a pair of parasitic Jaegers. Then, after the jaegers had moved on, came a group of five snow buntings ;-). Location approx. 75 deg 24.16 N, 89 deg 48.52 W.

These are the first birds that I've seen this season, other than the two camp-follower gulls....

Comments

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Oh cool! :) Jaegers are little shits, but still . . . beautiful birds. Thanks for sharing about the jaegers and buntings. :)

[technomom]

Until I read the second paragraph, I was a little lost. Jaeger is a kind of lager, right? I learn the most interesting things on LJ . . .

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Me, I'm lost when I read the phrase "ground truth". I haven't had the mind-altering experience of the ground lying to me. Perhaps I haven't been in California long enough :-)

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

I had to think for a second about 'ground-truth' too :-)

Is it worrying that you have seen so few birds?