Ornithology Field Journal Entry 7
Date: April 29nd, 2024
Start Time: 9:30 am
End Time: 10:00 am
Location: Parking lot of Jeanne Mance
Weather: Day high of 57 degrees, low of 43 degrees. Its a calm day. The morning started with light rain and it was warm, muggy, and cloudy for the rest of the day.
Habitat: Urban landscape, the parking lot of Jeanne Mance on Pearl street. There's a big grassy backyard to one side, two smaller backyards with trees, and a small woody patch of old hardwood trees.
I’ve been waking up every morning before sunrise, for reasons unknown, and as my roommate sleeps on, the birds and emerging traffic are my only companions. I typically hear Robin first, the whistles rising and falling through the dark sky. As I watch the sun rise, and the sky slowly brighten, I hear the birds get louder and louder, a symphony of songs join the early Robin’s, and their dark shadows become magnificent displays of spring plumages and ritualistic flights. The residents of Jeanne-Mance’s-parking-lot-and-surrounding-areas have included House Finches, the aforementioned American Robins, European Starlings, Chipping Sparrows, Black-capped Chickadees, Eastern Phoebes, Ring-Billed Gulls, Northern Cardinals and more. This morning, I had the urge to go out and sit in the small patch of grass in the center of the parking lot, and take in the morning’s birds, taking in the light rain as it began to fall.
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