http://www.bigcountryaudubon.org/2009/03/31/march-birding-madness-county-firsts/ Birding in the Big Country Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:05:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.bigcountryaudubon.org/2009/03/31/march-birding-madness-county-firsts/comment-page-1/#comment-2523 Laura Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:40:00 +0000 http://www.bigcountryaudubon.org/?p=616#comment-2523 Thanks for straightening me out, Heidi. You have a reputation, hehe, and I just assumed you found the poorwill on the road. Sorry 'bout that. Thanks for straightening me out, Heidi. You have a reputation, hehe, and I just assumed you found the poorwill on the road. Sorry ’bout that.

]]> http://www.bigcountryaudubon.org/2009/03/31/march-birding-madness-county-firsts/comment-page-1/#comment-2521 heidi Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:38:10 +0000 http://www.bigcountryaudubon.org/?p=616#comment-2521 Correction on the poorwill: my neighbor flushed it from some shrubs in his yard and its flight was feeble - they're just coming out of torpor right now and tend to be groggy! So rehab was to fatten him up and keep him safe while he recovered from his nap (this was when the temps snapped back into the 30s, forcing insect eating birds to cut back on calorie intake). Correction on the poorwill: my neighbor flushed it from some shrubs in his yard and its flight was feeble – they’re just coming out of torpor right now and tend to be groggy! So rehab was to fatten him up and keep him safe while he recovered from his nap (this was when the temps snapped back into the 30s, forcing insect eating birds to cut back on calorie intake).

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