my barred owl call brings all the boys to the research center
My bus stop is just east of Dupont Circle on P Street, NW. I realized the Embassy of the Republic of Iraq was just across the street from where I wait for the bus. It was kinda deserted:
It has been raining much of the week with heavy downpours. No need to water the plants anytime soon.
Yesterday I went out to see Sean's installation at Artomatic, at Capital Plaza I - corner of First & M streets NE - near the NY Ave Metro. I thought the setup for all the artwork was pretty impressive. The building they're hosting the event in is an unfinished office building several stories high. Coordinating the timing of the installations must have been tricky to get the show in while the building was still unfinished, yet ready for more construction. Artomatic will be showing for a month, and is a pretty cool thing for DC. Here's a crappy cell phone pic of Sean's installation:
Early, early this morning I went out with Michael and Bryan to the Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in Beltsville, Maryland for the International Migratory Bird Day Bird Count (Census). I'm still pretty worn out from the hour, and it was raining hard, so I can't recall too many species spotted at the moment. But my barred owl call did not fail to bring the boys to the yard. I am the best barred owl caller in the DC Metropolitan region, wings down. We also saw yellowlegs, lots of bluebirds, and many warblers identified by call. The beehives were still mostly unpopulated:
But again, it was very wet outside. I would have slept in too if I were a wise busy bee.
Madonnarama is tonight but I think I've spent all my party points for the week. And it's a nice, cool, cloudy day for several naps. I'm goin' to bed.
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Speaking of bird calls, yesterday my partner was practicing his classical guitar when a Northern Mockingbird came to the window of our apt. and sat there listening, then flew off. It came back a few minutes later, listening to him repeat the last bars of a Bach piece, and then sang the notes back to him twice. Very funny. He said he felt like Snow White.
It's "Dupont" Circle, not "DuPont" Circle. Thanks.
The Iraqi Embassy is being refurbished at the moment, so they aren't really in that building. They will move back there eventually.
The Iraqi diplomats in the U.S. are some of the best the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has to offer to the world. It was a pleasure to work with them for the year that I did.
"Who cooks for you?
Who cooks for you all?"
That's how I learned the Barred Owl call down here in the South. But there's that screaming territorial one, too.
;-)
I have some photos to post on my blog of two pair of Western Tanagers that visited our backyard recently. They are beautiful. And we still have the hummingbird that guards our little waterfall from the other birds. Quite funny!
Hey Jim-
Thanks for coming out to my opening, though it suck that I didn't get a chance to actually see you there.
Hope you enjoyed.
"spent all my party points". Ha! I think I spent all mine too, and i'm STILL paying for it.
Poor bees. They are really having it rough.