Birds to see ...
I found this interesting (if you're a birdwatcher) article via Pixie's Birdwatcher's Notebook. She then proceded to post her Top 10 most-want-to see birds, and ask everyone to post theirs on her message board.
I'll go one step further and post mine here.
1. Painted Bunting (have wanted to see this ever since I read my first Peterson's Guide at age 9)
2. Ivory-Billed Wodpecker (What birder doesn't?)
3. Frigate Bird (again, since I was a child, and my parent's had a "Birds of the World" encyclopedia)
4. Golden Eagle (Now that I've seen a Bald Eagle)
5. California Condor (only seen in zoos)
6. Snow Goose (a flock, I want to see a large flock overhead)
7. Whooping Crane (My Uncle saw these out in Texas once ... always fascinated me)
8. Pileated Woodpecker (again ~ there is one on our property, he just chooses to be elusive)
9. Snowy Owl (Even before there was a "Hedwig")
10. Perrigrine Falcon (Saw them with my sister and brother-in-law one spring at Shenendoah National Park)
Oh, and by the way, If I get a #11, I doso want to see that little Saw Whet Owl.
Posted by sunybank at June 1, 2005 07:43 AM
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