Adventures in Birding

stinger?

I think my new lens is causing me shoulder pain! Yesterday I felt stabs of pain like an electrical shock in my shoulder and my side. (Googling says it could be a "stinger," which is normally a sports injury from a body slam or jerking your neck suddenly) I'm just assuming it's from holding up that 3.5 lens.

Yesterday I went for a walk at my favorite game lands. I didn't see anything new for the year, but I did hear and see a Red-tail Hawk that was calling a lot. After viewing my photos of the hawk, I realized it's a Northern or "Borealis" type of Red-tail Hawk! This type has been seen in our county, but not in this area! It was pretty exciting to see it there!

Photos from yesterday's walk  

Sunday is my birthday, but it's going to snow so I'm not sure I'll get out to see any birds. Tomorrow my sister and I (we're twins so it's her birthday, too) are going out to try to see a Short-eared Owl! That will be another lifer for me if we find it! Actually there are about 5 of them that regularly hunt in the fields of this one area and people have been photographing them every evening for weeks now, so it's a pretty good chance we'll see it!