It's pretty simple: the most birds seen or heard from one's yard during 2012 will be the winner. Not of money, fame, fortune, or anything of value to any normal human being. Just eternal yardbirding legend. This year's contest is a stripped-down, souped-up, no holds barred version of 2011, with only the foolhardy remaining.

2012 promises to be the greenest, meanest, most carbon-free, birding competition EVER (not counting the fuel to harvest, sterilize, and transport thistle seed from Ethiopia or sunflower seed from N. Dakota).

Friday, January 13, 2012

A change of pace

The yard list here in ANJO-land remains stalled under 20 species; it took until today to see the year's first Tufted Titmouse, and narry a raptor has graced our skies or woods yet. But the snow-less doldrums are over; Cleveland is getting perhaps half a foot of snow in this snowstorm, and the birds have finally started using the feeders more heavily. What a difference 24 hours makes.

Posted by at 3:09 PM

3 comments:

  1. Looking good Cleve-man. What are your prospects for CARW, PIWO, BDOW, HAWO, RSHA, NOMO, and other low density forest birds?

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  2. That's a pretty classy side-by-side. It has been awhile since we had a nice time lapse.

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  3. CARW - twice last year
    PIWO - never; previous owners saw one in ten years. Need suet feeders...
    BDOW - doubt it
    HAWO - already have it for 2012
    RSHA - had a juv in the woods a few times last fall
    NOMO - unlikely

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