Grateful Dead

Had a morning stroll through a nature preserve and spotted: red-bellied woodpecker, downy woodpecker, night capped heron (x2, one on a river log and the other up on a branch), female hooded merganser.

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Albums so far today:

The Who, Who’s Next

Greg Allman, The Greg Allman Tour

Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country, Reflector

Waylon Jennings, Honky Tonk Heroes

Dicky Betts, Dicky Betts and Great Southern

Yahoo!!!

Cap Centre. Guardians on rain delay while thunderstorms come through. Had matinee theater tickets for "Ms. Holmes and Ms. Watson." Kate Hamill play; very funny!
Speaking of birds, my daughter bought me a Birdfy feeder for Fathers Day last year. It has a webcam. Really cool! We have a pair of cardinals that come and go all day long.

We have Common Snipe over here, they make a great sound when doing a display flight. We have seen a Wilson’s Snipe in the UK. It was on the Isles of Scilly, an area famous for getting vagrants from both the west (USA) and the East. Birdsong is well worth listening to.
Edit: We have also seen Great Blue Heron on Scilly

Very cool! Bird lover here and I don't think I've ever seen one. That snipe winnowing sound is crazy! Back when you posed this bird ID question a couple years ago I thought it might be the wing sound of a diving nighthawk based on your general description. Wasn't aware there another species around here that produced such a distinctive wing noise while diving.

....didn't see a lot of birds, but lizards were plentiful.
Best way to unwind once back? Watch some BBC Attenborough of course! Horned toads/lizards are the current topic. Used to catch them when I was a kid. And yes, they do shoot blood from their eyes. Blew my ten year old mind. Happy Hundredth Birthday Sir.
Widespread Panic tonight. I enjoy them.
Dammit. This is current listening page isn't it?
Attenborough counts! Colin said so.
Edit. Ooooh. Armadillo lizards? Rad. They bite their tail to protect their unarmored bellies. Oroborous! Where are you?

Last night 58 bonus blew my mind. The recording quality, clarity, and playing are all remarkable on this release. 58 disc 3 was a mind melt. Now listening to 58 disc 2 with strong coffee. I can never get enough 73 and this is top shelf stuff. Where to put all this music that keeps appearing in my home!

Those are not easy to see. Usually hiding out but fly furiously and low when they are seen taking off. Massive bill, cool coloring and stripes. Great wetland wader! We'll make a birder of you yet, lol.
Cheers
Playing Playin' from 58 bonus, mind blown. Sweet!

After at least what, six?, seven years (6, 7 yuck yuck) I finally found out what that bird is I’ve been obsessed with naming. (And some of you tried to help with)
Out for a walk with TOO and we come across two birders checking out a blue heron, of the supposed six nesting pairs we have here, as well as dozens of others they Id this AM via Merlin. So we ask them about my elusive bird and I make their distinctive noise and the guy instantly knows what it is and pulls it up and sho nuff, woop there it is: a Wilson Snipe and the noise isn’t it’s call, but winnowing? sound they make during flight!
Sigh,I can now die a content man ; )
We’re fortunate to have a big native area and wetlands all throughout the center of town (best thing about this place) which is a prolific bird sanctuary for both migrating and local species as well as huge Elk and Mule Deer herds etc. Plus Mountain lions, Bobcats, coyotes Bears, Foxes etc, Wolves close by too.
Makes me remember nature in general and y’all wishing David Attenborough happy happy joy joy big one hundo! Besides the wonderful, informative aspect, he’s the best sleep aid ever…something about his voice that just soothe the soul, calms a person down, and puts ya right to sleep!
Love DA and especially at bed time!
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But now it’s wakey wakey time so
MJQ followed by some
Jelly Roll Morton and then some new
JGB 2/28/91
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Oh yeah, forgot, Dharma Bums changed my life too. Definitely my favorite Kerouac book!
Part of why I moved to the mountains.

Digable Planets
Rebirth of Slick
AWESOME track