COUCH’S KINGBIRD: GEORGIA’S LATEST CELEBRITY AVIAN ‘VAGRANT’

January 4, 2024.Reading time 5 minutes.

Speculation Alert I can not find an authoritative source so I’m speculating that Georgia hosts an unusually large number of avian vagrants – birds outside their ‘normal’ ranges – each year and the number is increasing. Though not fully researched, at least by me, I don’t think this is unfounded speculation. How about y’all? Seeing […]

Groundhog Day: A Chipmunk Will Have To Do

February 2, 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

I haven’t seen a groundhog in our neighborhood, Glennwood Estates, Decatur, Georgia, but we do have our share of chipmunks. So I thought why not a rodent stand-in today. No shadow this morning so we are in for an early spring. This was confirmed by Georgia’s official groundhog winter forecaster, Beau, down in Jackson GA […]