now that's more like it!
Sep. 7th, 2008 07:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterbadgerI took Rupert down to the C&O Canal towpath, and we did about seven and a half miles. It's not the 10-20 mile afternoon rides of old, but I've got to build back up again.
I saw a juvenile great blue heron, several mallards, a crow or two, various smaller unidentifiable birds, and two rather starling types that I need to research.
One was a bird of average size, flying singly but in a company of 3-5 others, with a white body and black wings. They flew across the canal, from trees into the foliage of other trees, at medium height. Possibly juvenile red-headed woodpeckers.
Another was very large bird, possibly with a rounded sort of head, buff coloured below, with a wide wings that seemed to curve back almost in a D shape (with the curve of the D being the leading edge). It flew (mostly gliding) fairly high along the canal on the edge of the woods and landed in a tall dead, leafless tree. I'm guessing a great horned owl or a barred owl.
I'm back, moved things in from the car and had a shower.
OK, food now (for me and cats).
I saw a juvenile great blue heron, several mallards, a crow or two, various smaller unidentifiable birds, and two rather starling types that I need to research.
One was a bird of average size, flying singly but in a company of 3-5 others, with a white body and black wings. They flew across the canal, from trees into the foliage of other trees, at medium height. Possibly juvenile red-headed woodpeckers.
Another was very large bird, possibly with a rounded sort of head, buff coloured below, with a wide wings that seemed to curve back almost in a D shape (with the curve of the D being the leading edge). It flew (mostly gliding) fairly high along the canal on the edge of the woods and landed in a tall dead, leafless tree. I'm guessing a great horned owl or a barred owl.
I'm back, moved things in from the car and had a shower.
OK, food now (for me and cats).
