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The Bird Banter Podcast Episode #17: Memorial Day Weekend Notes

Pigeon Guillemot on its nest. Most of the nests appeared to be deeper in burrows, and the sitting birds were not visible, but this one was in plain sight.

On this episode Ed talks about Memorial Day weekend just past and memories of this weekend gone by, along with the recent ABC Birding Club presentation by Ken Brown (episodes #2 & #6) on bird names and avian nomenclature. Check out the ABC Birding website post on this talk.

The sandy bank with the burrows looked like this.

At Anderson Island this past weekend there were nesting Pigeon Guillemots. They make burrows in the sandy banks, along with Northern Rough-winged Swallows, and Ed happend onto two separate colonies with 20+ birds each.

The Willettes are a group of female birders in the ABC Club that travel together, drink wine together, bird together and dress in matching bird-related attire.

Laurel, Faye, Ken, Carol and Diane (4 Willettes and Ken)

Thanks for visiting.

Good birding. Good day!