• Strawberries
• Chard
• Green Onions
• Mesculine
• Mustard Greens
• Heirloom Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce
• Radishes

Not sure what we are going to make with that per se, but it should be tasty regardless.

I’ll give you some options Trebek. In no order of awesomeness, I give you…

1. I’m reading “car” as “ground vehicle”, so Optimus Prime, but if it needs to be a car, Rodimus Prime.
2. Similar to above, Rhino, or if it needs to be a car, Thunderhawk, both from M.A.S.K.
3. Axel or Minion, because I’ll be damned if I’ll pick a car from TM2. Fine, Outlaw 2.
4. The Justice Jogger (Overland Villain Chaser) from the Super Powers toy set.
5. Battle Cat.
6. The Black Lion.
7. Ecto 1.
8. Anything from Dino-Riders.
9. Anything from Starcom: The U.S. Space Force.
And finally…
10. The exosuit cargo-loader from Aliens.

Birds seen at our feeders on the porch:

• Blue Jay
• Northern Cardinal
• House Sparrow
• House Finch
• Carolina Chickadee
• Ruby-throated Hummingbird
• Tufted Titmouse – added 7/25 when I realized I skipped this species somehow
• Mourning Dove – moved from the complex list on 7/31 after almost a week of visiting the feeders

Birds seen outside the rear windows of the apartment (computer room and bedroom):

• The above list
• American Robin
• American Goldfinch
• Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
• Some small wren-like bird we didn’t get a chance to identify completely

Finally, birds seen while walking around the apartment complex grounds:

• Pileated Woodpecker
• Mallard (one female and four juveniles)
• Black-crowned Night-Heron
• Chimney Swift

That brings the list to 15 16 different bird species (including the unidentified one, which we can say is not one of the listed ones). Then again, I guess being surrounded by plenty of trees helps with the number of species.

Edit 7/31: I’m modifying the above list to include the fact that the mourning doves have found the feeder and now visit rather regularly. The added benefit is that they, much like the song sparrow and some of the house finches, assist in cleaning up the porch by eating seeds that have been knocked out of the feeders.

He was never one to use technology, nor did I ever really get phone calls from him once I went to Bowling Green for college. Once, near the end, he called from the cordless phone placed near his bed, to tell me he would see me the coming weekend, the last Fathers Day he’d be around for, and the call went to voicemail. Every handful of weeks when prompted, I re-save the voicemail after listening to it.

I miss my father.

• Canada Goose 4
• Barred Owl 1
• Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
• Red-bellied Woodpecker 4
• Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
• Eastern Phoebe 2
• Blue Jay 1
• Tree Swallow 3
• Black-capped Chickadee 3
• White-breasted Nuthatch 3
• Chipping Sparrow 2
• Northern Cardinal 2
• Common Grackle 1

The Barred Owl was a sight; something must have roused it from it’s rest, as it was moving around, which is why we saw it in the first place. The Ruby-throated Hummingbird I caught sight of by accident, as it was about 25 feet or so away and up in the branches, but I was able to follow it for a bit as it darted around from tree to tree.

On BGSU’s campus, there’s not much exciting or different eight now, but it does help to learn common species; the American Robin, European Starling, American Goldfinch, Chipping Sparrow, House Sparrow, Brown-headed Cowbird, and Northern Cardinal are all species I’m getting better at noticing from afar as well as by their call.

This weekend we went to visit my Mom, and during the process of getting the grill ready, cooking, and eating, watching the skies was a great way to deal with the down time. I kept a number of different lists while I was there and will up submitting them to ebird.org here shortly. I manager to point out a Common Nighthawk to Meghan finally, which, like the Chimney Swifts over the neighborhood and the Killdeer we saw near the golf course/development, was a sighting I didn’t expect to see.

Location: Oak Openings Region
Observation date: 5/17/09
Notes: The day started sunny and around 57 degrees (F), perhaps getting 10 degrees warmer.
Number of species: 25

• Red-tailed Hawk 1
• Mourning Dove 1
• Red-headed Woodpecker 6
• Downy Woodpecker 2
• Least Flycatcher 1
• Eastern Phoebe 2
• Great Crested Flycatcher 3
• Blue Jay 1
• Tree Swallow 3
• Black-capped Chickadee 1
• Tufted Titmouse 2
• White-breasted Nuthatch 1
• Eastern Bluebird 2
• Veery 1
• American Robin 4
• Pine Warbler 1
• American Tree Sparrow 1
• Chipping Sparrow 10
• Field Sparrow 2
• Lark Sparrow 1
• Savannah Sparrow 4
• Indigo Bunting 1
• Brown-headed Cowbird 3
• Orchard Oriole 2
• American Goldfinch 1

• Canada Goose 97
• Trumpeter Swan 3
• Mallard 3
• Double-crested Cormorant 9
• Great Blue Heron 5
• Great Egret 92
• Turkey Vulture 3
• Red-tailed Hawk 1
• American Coot 6
• Killdeer 1
• Eastern Phoebe 1
• Eastern Kingbird 4
• Tree Swallow 37
• American Robin 9
• Gray Catbird 2
• European Starling 13
• Red-winged Blackbird 55
• American Goldfinch 2

• Canada Goose 29
• Mallard 3
• Double-crested Cormorant 1
• Great Blue Heron 5
• Great Egret 16
• Snowy Egret 1
• Turkey Vulture 1
• Sora 1
• Killdeer 2
• Herring Gull 1
• Mourning Dove 2
• Eastern Screech-Owl 1
• Least Flycatcher 3
• Great Crested Flycatcher 1
• Eastern Kingbird 2
• Warbling Vireo 2
• Tree Swallow 40
• House Wren 3
• Ruby-crowned Kinglet 8
• Veery 7
• Swainson’s Thrush 1
• American Robin 20
• Gray Catbird 11
• Nashville Warbler 1
• Northern Parula 1
• Yellow Warbler 10
• Chestnut-sided Warbler 11
• Magnolia Warbler 7
• Cape May Warbler 2
• Black-throated Blue Warbler 3
• Yellow-rumped Warbler 25
• Black-throated Green Warbler 9
• Palm Warbler 13
• Bay-breasted Warbler 3
• Black-and-white Warbler 6
• American Redstart 3
• Prothonotary Warbler 3
• Wilson’s Warbler 1
• Canada Warbler 1
• White-throated Sparrow 14
• White-crowned Sparrow 2
• Northern Cardinal 2
• Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1
• Red-winged Blackbird 52
• Common Grackle 12
• Baltimore Oriole 5