When I started this project in May 2012, I allowed myself to grandfather in a number of towns that I had birded already that year; 16 towns in all. Town # 1 on my resulting list of the 251 turned out to be Leicester, which I had passed thru in earliest January.
What made Leicester interesting - and worthy of including as a surveyed town - was a flock of Snow Buntings that caught my eye as I was heading west from the town center. Turns out there were over 100 in the flock, and they were very skittish. They never stayed on the ground for more than 30 seconds; I'm not sure if it was my presence or something else, but they never rested. I managed to capture a few photos of them that were in relatively good focus, and below is one of them.
On my way back towards Brandon, I encountered an amazing 'house' that had been constructed/re-constructed from a barn and silo. How cool would it be to have that top floor for a reading room or astronomy observatory?!?
My checklist for Leicester:
Snow Bunting
White-breasted Nuthatch
House Sparrow
What made Leicester interesting - and worthy of including as a surveyed town - was a flock of Snow Buntings that caught my eye as I was heading west from the town center. Turns out there were over 100 in the flock, and they were very skittish. They never stayed on the ground for more than 30 seconds; I'm not sure if it was my presence or something else, but they never rested. I managed to capture a few photos of them that were in relatively good focus, and below is one of them.
On my way back towards Brandon, I encountered an amazing 'house' that had been constructed/re-constructed from a barn and silo. How cool would it be to have that top floor for a reading room or astronomy observatory?!?
My checklist for Leicester:
Snow Bunting
White-breasted Nuthatch
House Sparrow
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