Comments on: The Day of the Grosbeaks http://www.elanus.net/sutro/2007/05/07/the-day-of-the-grosbeaks/ Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:23:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: morgan http://www.elanus.net/sutro/2007/05/07/the-day-of-the-grosbeaks/comment-page-1/#comment-17 morgan Tue, 08 May 2007 05:09:08 +0000 http://www.elanus.net/sutro/2007/05/07/the-day-of-the-grosbeaks/#comment-17 No grosbeaks over the weekend? How weird -- I didn't notice. Well, we are still in migration here in the Bay area, but I'd be really surprised if breeders hadn't already shown up and established nearby territories. In other words, migration could explain fluctuations in numbers from 2 to 6, but 0 to 6? No grosbeaks over the weekend? How weird — I didn’t notice. Well, we are still in migration here in the Bay area, but I’d be really surprised if breeders hadn’t already shown up and established nearby territories. In other words, migration could explain fluctuations in numbers from 2 to 6, but 0 to 6?

]]> By: elanus http://www.elanus.net/sutro/2007/05/07/the-day-of-the-grosbeaks/comment-page-1/#comment-16 elanus Tue, 08 May 2007 04:03:36 +0000 http://www.elanus.net/sutro/2007/05/07/the-day-of-the-grosbeaks/#comment-16 You know, I was actually wondering where all the grosbeaks had gone. There weren't any at all on the day I was trying to do my "10 species in 10 photos" thing (and I really noticed, because I was counting on being able to include them). Looking back through the grosbeak photos, it looks like the last Black-headed Grosbeak photo prior to today was on Friday, May 4. There were no photos of them at all on Saturday and Sunday, and then today, bam! There were 239 photos of them. Here's my theory: On Saturday all the Grosbeaks were in some bar getting drunk for Cinco de Mayo, and they got so hammered they had to spend all of Sunday sleeping it off. That's great about the Grosbeak Challenge. I wonder if 5 is the all-time high for birds in a photo of any species? Hm. Maybe the pigeons on the roof would beat that; I seem to recall some photos with a pretty high pigeon count. But these grosbeak photos clearly have those beat in the "fun" department. You know, I was actually wondering where all the grosbeaks had gone. There weren’t any at all on the day I was trying to do my “10 species in 10 photos” thing (and I really noticed, because I was counting on being able to include them). Looking back through the grosbeak photos, it looks like the last Black-headed Grosbeak photo prior to today was on Friday, May 4. There were no photos of them at all on Saturday and Sunday, and then today, bam! There were 239 photos of them.

Here’s my theory: On Saturday all the Grosbeaks were in some bar getting drunk for Cinco de Mayo, and they got so hammered they had to spend all of Sunday sleeping it off.

That’s great about the Grosbeak Challenge. I wonder if 5 is the all-time high for birds in a photo of any species? Hm. Maybe the pigeons on the roof would beat that; I seem to recall some photos with a pretty high pigeon count. But these grosbeak photos clearly have those beat in the “fun” department.

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