I may need to ask TransAtlanticGoose to procure a new category for Front Yard Birding but he too would just laugh at me, much as everyone else does. The notion is both redundant and bizarre. Nonetheless, while listening to John Coltrane and scoping the woodlot across the street I did notice a small flighty package that turned out to be a single Ruby-crowned kinglet. I grabbed my camera from the top of the table saw ( I keep it there so that I can easily find it because that's where I saw it last) and made a bee-line for the woods. It took a few seconds to locate it again and just as I lifted my camera a car drove by and that was the end of the kinglet. No car had passed by for at least 15 - 20 minutes prior to that. No car passed by for at least the same interval after that. Go figure. While sitting in my make-believe seat at the Village Vanguard listening to Coltrane and trying to forget that frustrating moment earlier I spotted a Black-throated green warbler in the forsythia bush beside the car. At first I thought that it was just a butterfly. We looked at each other over than 2.5 meter gap. It then took off and flew toward me and caught an insect in mid-air directly over the car's windshield (1.75 meters away) and then returned to the bush. Nice flycatcher behaviour. I watched the Red-headed woodpecker do the same thing from on-high yesterday and was then also thinking ... nice flycatcher behaviour. I got up slowly and retrieved my camera from the saw and discovered that the warbler had vanished. Birds: 2 / Photographer: 0.
