Birding and Baseball

I really love birding while at baseball games. It is like a Big Sit with entertainment. I've attended more games at the Oakland Coliseum than any other venue, and it has a few good features - a wide-open sky, a large adjacent parking lot, and a moat around that lot. So water birds - like herons and egrets - can occur, as well as birds of prey and plenty of gulls.
Today's game in Oakland was poor in number of species, but it generated a new bird to my Coliseum list - a Belted Kingfisher! It makes some sense that it would be there, because of the moat, but not to fly over the stadium silently while a game was in progress. Peggy spotted it first, and through some miracle I got a poor-but-still-identifiable picture.

Publicado el agosto 22, 2021 04:40 MAÑANA por gyrrlfalcon gyrrlfalcon

Observaciones

Fotos / Sonidos

Qué

Martín Pescador Norteño (Megaceryle alcyon)

Observ.

gyrrlfalcon

Fecha

Agosto 21, 2021 a las 03:39 TARDE PDT

Descripción

Pretty darn cool to see flying over the ballpark!

Comentarios

@floydted - we were very excited to add a bird to the Coliseum list!

Publicado por gyrrlfalcon hace más de 2 años

Get 'em while the gettin's good, Jennifer. Because BEKI is a lot less likely in Las Vegas, BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Hey, did you know @hannahfloyd_naturalist is presenting an iNat webinar to Western Field Ornithologists later this week?

Publicado por floydted hace más de 2 años

That's GREAT news re. @hannahfloyd_naturalist ! Spread the word!
And yeah, soon I fear my Oakland Coliseum list will be an historical artifact.

Publicado por gyrrlfalcon hace más de 2 años

Agregar un comentario

Acceder o Crear una cuenta para agregar comentarios.