Ornithology Lab: Recent Episodes
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Date: 4/18/18 Time: 2:00 PM Weather: 69°F Location: Richmond As I was walking back to my apartment from a friends house I was stopped by a ‘strange’ bird vocalization. The vocalization sound like a cross between a crow and a hawk. Using my phone as a scope (I did not have my binoculars at the … Continue reading "Catch-Up: 3/25/18 Blue Jay"
Date: 4/17/18 Time: 7:00 AM Weather: 39°F Location: Hollywood Cemetery Early Tuesday morning I joined Professor Bullock and a group of classmates on a trip to Hollywood Cemetery. The trip lasted roughly 1 hour and consisted of both visual and vocal identification of birds, mainly vocalizations though. We were able to witness American Robins … Continue reading "Catch-Up: 3/18/18 Trip to Hollywood Cemetery"
Date: 4/16/18 Time: 2:00 PM Weather:55°F Location: Richmond (MCV Campus) Monday afternoon, returning from my volunteer work at the Main Street Hospital, I witnessed a group of crows in a grass lot across the bus stop. Noting that this would be an excellent time for a bird observation I watched the crows during my 15 … Continue reading "Catch-Up: 3/11/18 Fish Crow or American Crow?"
Date: 4/15/18 Time: 11:00 AM Weather: 66°F Location: Richmond (My apartment) On Sunday morning I woke up at roughly 11:00 AM. Outside of my apartment window, which is positioned in front of a rather large tree, I heard some birds vocalizing nearby. Being so close to my window, the birds sounded almost as if they … Continue reading "4/15/18 Song Sparrow"
Date: 4/7/18 Time: 4:00 PM Weather: 54°F Location: Lorton, Virginia This past weekend I spent my time revisiting my parents, again. As I was returning from going to the gym with my brother we were driving along Silverbrook road and noticed some birds moving along a shrubby grass field. Having yet spend time outside for … Continue reading "4/8/18 Wild Turkey"
Date: 3/28/18 Time: 2:00 PM Weather: 66°F Location: Richmond City (MCV Campus) As an exercise to better familiarize myself with the Tufted Titmouse’s vocalizations I spent my afternoon on Wednesday looking for them in the City. I was able to find some tufted tit mouses around the MCV campus near a park. As for which … Continue reading "4/1/18"
Date: 3/4/18 Time: 2:30 PM Weather: 55°F Location: University Commons (entrance towards library side). Over the weekend I observed what I believed to be a House Sparrow. While returning from the etymology lab I noticed some birds fluttering about near the University Commons and decided to investigate. Perched inside a leafy tree there were approximately … Continue reading "3/4/18 House Sparrow"
Due to a heavy workload this week (which is no excuse) I was unable/forgot to post my bird observation last week, therefore I am submitting it now. Date: 2/24/18 Time: 3:30 PM Weather: 53°F Location: Riverview Cemetery Description of locations: Open grass field, short grass, no trees, medium size area. Entrance of cemetery. Doing an … Continue reading "2/25/18 American Robin"
Over the weekend I returned to my families household to celebrate the lunar new year. On February 17th I was able to observe a sparrow-like bird around my neighborhood (Lorton, Virginia). I believe that the bird I observed was a White-Crowned Sparrow. The bird had a similar appearance to a White-Throated Sparrow, however the individual … Continue reading "2/18/18 White-Crowned Sparrow"
Along our walking path towards Belle Isle on January 24, 2018 the class observed an Eastern Phoebe. What I found interesting was that it would sporadically “twitch” its tail up and down. (Below is a video I found from Youtube.com) I hypothesize that this behavior may have something to do with sensing wind directions and … Continue reading "Week Two Lab Post"