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a life bird for Mother's day
Day 56. We sincerely thank all of the health care workers for what they are going through during this crisis especially on Mother's Day.
I am not a doctor. And even though I have no medical credentials, I think I can diagnose that the vast majority of Americans have cabin fever laced with a pandemic of stresses that are bringing us down.
Betty Thompson is our eye-to-the-sky in Kansas. Betty is also a retired nurse and a birder with a camera. When her husband Tim asked what she wanted for Mother's Day, she wanted an outing. She wanted to find a species she had never seen before and get some photos.
This species probably never gets cabin fever. It is on the go too much of its life. The yellow noggin blackbirds called Bobolinks are long, long distance migrants that spend their winters in south South America in countries that include Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay. A single bobolink may fly 12,000 miles round trip during its migration south to north and back. Plus, its chosen habitat is grasslands where it flies considerable more each day in search of food.
Bobolinks spend their summers across the northern tier of states up into Canada. But if you look at any range map, there's an isolated summer population in northern Kentucky and one in Kansas. To find that lone spot in Kansas was Betty's goal for Mother's Day. A needle in a hay stack? But that's the joy of such treasure hunts.
"We drove to Paulo, Kansas, just south of Kansas City," emailed Betty. It was about 2 1/2 to 3 hours northeast of where they live.
And, although they didn't find as many as Betty expected, she got some great photos.
The thrill of the hunt eases cabin fever.
Indeed, ob-la-de, ob-la-da.
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I am not a doctor. And even though I have no medical credentials, I think I can diagnose that the vast majority of Americans have cabin fever laced with a pandemic of stresses that are bringing us down.
Betty Thompson is our eye-to-the-sky in Kansas. Betty is also a retired nurse and a birder with a camera. When her husband Tim asked what she wanted for Mother's Day, she wanted an outing. She wanted to find a species she had never seen before and get some photos.
This species probably never gets cabin fever. It is on the go too much of its life. The yellow noggin blackbirds called Bobolinks are long, long distance migrants that spend their winters in south South America in countries that include Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay. A single bobolink may fly 12,000 miles round trip during its migration south to north and back. Plus, its chosen habitat is grasslands where it flies considerable more each day in search of food.
"We drove to Paulo, Kansas, just south of Kansas City," emailed Betty. It was about 2 1/2 to 3 hours northeast of where they live.
And, although they didn't find as many as Betty expected, she got some great photos.
The thrill of the hunt eases cabin fever.
Indeed, ob-la-de, ob-la-da.
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