February 17, 2020
I started my birding trip at around 4:00 pm on February 17th, 2020. It was a pretty sunny day, the sky was clear and it was about 32 degrees Fahrenheit. There was some wind but it was mostly blocked by the surrounding buildings. I started at Redstone campus, observing the green for a bit then started to walk towards main street. I saw a couple of European starlings fly overhead. I walked past a large bush and saw a bunch of House Sparrows in its branches. I saw a couple of rock pigeons perched on top of a building. At one point I saw an American Crow fly overhead. European Starlings seem to fly together. The ones I saw were flying together. There was only one instance where I saw a single European Starling flying alone. They flap their wings pretty quickly and don’t glide very much. Rock pigeons on the other hand flap there wings slightly slower but seem to glide even less that European Starlings. A European Starlings wings are slightly smaller and more pointed but overall they have a similar shape to that of a Rock Pigeon. I’m most likely not seeing very many birds because it is the middle of winter. Most birds likely are less active, conserving energy to keep themselves warm. Getting slightly further from areas with high human traffic as well as waiting until the weather is warmer will probably result in me seeing more birds.
