A couple of days ago, when there was ice hanging from the trees, I noticed a bluejay in our yard looking for food. I remembered that we had a partial bag of bird seed in the cupboard so I threw it on the front yard. Yesterday I noticed that a squirrel had finally discovered the seed. This morning, as I sit at the computer looking out the window, I am watching mostly bluejays, but in the past several minutes there has also been red-bellied woodpecker, cardinals, sparrows, robins and wren. I am using these great little binoculars I got for Christmas and the internet to identify the birds.
On last Saturday's bike ride, as I rode along Union Grove Circle, a rural road on the edge of Gwinnett and Barrow counties, I came upon about 25 huge Black Vultures sitting on the fences and along the road. Some of them flew away as I approached but most of them stayed, less than 10-feet away from me. I've never seen anything like it. Finally I spotted what the attraction was; a large deer laying in the ditch beside the road, it looked like it had just died.
Unfortunately, around here the dead deer on the side of the road are rarely the victim of traffic but usually the result of a "hunter" who spots them from his vehicle and simply rolls down the window and shoots them.
Yesterday while Samantha and I walked/jogged up Waldrop Rd. we stopped not far from the pond and watched the Canada Geese, Mallards, and ducks swimming and diving about. I wasn't aware how fast those birds can swim. I meant to go back with my camera, while the light was so perfect, but it didn't happen.
Posted by dancoy at February 2, 2004 10:44 AM