I'm dreaming of Summer and sweating right now. The ice/snow storm that affected Texas and Oklahoma cruelly included my area of Texas, which means I'm freezing my rear end off, or at least fingers and toes. Birds have been plentiful, thanks to corn and wheat: White-crowned Sparrows, Vesper Sparrows, and House Finches right outside the back door, meadowlarks (mostly Western, perhaps one or two Eastern), Northern Cardinals and Mourning Doves within the backyard. We have even recorded an American Robin, seen only once before!
One bird I haven't recorded yet is American Goldfinches. Some years they are quite plentiful and others not. I guess this is an "unplentiful" year. I have also missed the Harris's Sparrows, but there are notoriously few of them anyways. I expect I'll see a few around eventually.
Onto the the plans, though. Now that I have completed my first semester of college and restarted this blog, things are really going to get hopping. I have two main things I want to do:
Redesign the whole layout—I've never liked the way it turned out, but couldn't do much about it (and remember I had no fire to convince me to keep trying). Weebly, my host, has finally come out with some layouts I like, and therefore I want a complete redo! Expect the new look before the end of the week (but I'm not making any promises).
Post at least once a week—I'm going to be doing a small writing course, Adobe InDesign, Flash, and Premiere Pro learning books, and an web coding course, learning more Latin and Greek root words, and practicing my clarinet, but other than that, I'm free. Besides, learning HTML, CSS, etc., and these design softwares is fun to me, not work. I digress. I can write, photograph, and illustrate in my spare time. This is going to be fun!
My hands are still cold, I still wish it was Summer, but I'm excited about unveiling the new look! In the meanwhile, I'm cracking up the radio, pouring myself some hot cocoa, and getting to work.
See you soon and happy birding!
Alexandria
Onto the the plans, though. Now that I have completed my first semester of college and restarted this blog, things are really going to get hopping. I have two main things I want to do:
Redesign the whole layout—I've never liked the way it turned out, but couldn't do much about it (and remember I had no fire to convince me to keep trying). Weebly, my host, has finally come out with some layouts I like, and therefore I want a complete redo! Expect the new look before the end of the week (but I'm not making any promises).
Post at least once a week—I'm going to be doing a small writing course, Adobe InDesign, Flash, and Premiere Pro learning books, and an web coding course, learning more Latin and Greek root words, and practicing my clarinet, but other than that, I'm free. Besides, learning HTML, CSS, etc., and these design softwares is fun to me, not work. I digress. I can write, photograph, and illustrate in my spare time. This is going to be fun!
My hands are still cold, I still wish it was Summer, but I'm excited about unveiling the new look! In the meanwhile, I'm cracking up the radio, pouring myself some hot cocoa, and getting to work.
See you soon and happy birding!
Alexandria