She do be Birding Though
Walked down a trail with mainly forest edges, but also through some dense woods. On the forest edges there were many, many red-winged blackbirds all perched on the same large tree. There didn't seem to be mob mentality when a few birds flew away, but rather suddenly they all flew away at once. The black-capped chickadees are always fun to watch. They are hard to spot when in motion but once they are perched they become quite vocal and move almost in tandem with one another. The presence of very loud crows seemed to frequently make the birds scatter and/or become quite vocal themselves. The crows may have been after something because they were extremely loud and flying actively. Circling over the forest was also quite common for the crows. The house finches were in pairs of male and female which does correspond to their breeding season. High activity in the birds was not surprising considering the increasing day lengths, however because we had a snowstorm I would suspect that there wasn't as much activity as there usually would be.
