Date: 2/10/26 1:39 pm From: D. George Prisbe-Przybysz via groups.io <prisbe.przybysz...> Subject: [sd-birds] nswo and birding with border collies
in recent years, most of my birding time happens when exercising my dogs. today, at eckman gpa north of watertown was another such outing. though my dogs can be a distraction, they often alert me to birds that i otherwise may have not noticed. case in point, their search for cottontails caused a small group of purple finch to rise out a thicket and perch in plain sight. while on many other occasions my dogs have alerted me to birds flying overhead that i otherwise may have missed. just minutes after the purple finch sighting i parted the boughs of a cedar tree (something that i have learned one has to do thousands of times with no reward) right at the location of a northern saw-whet owl. either my proximity (just a couple of feet) or the presence of my dogs caused this often quite tame bird to flush immediately. unfortunately, i was not able to relocate the owl.
george prisbe watertown
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