Rain Birding – It’s the Pits!

“Yeah, rain birding in Pittsburgh! Just grab an umbrella and an old camera.” Right. Great idea. Obviously the sad result of some combination of nature overenthusiasm and/or too much (or not enough?) black coffee.

Wet bird
Allegheny River & Fort Duquesne Bridge (Interstate 279)

Rain. Like water off a duck’s back:

Roberto Clemente Bridge over Allegheny River
Wet bird II
On left, Point State Park & Fort Pitt Bridge

Goose family’s day along the Allegheny River:

Head of Ohio River
Still a bird, even wetter
Acrisure Stadium
Looking for niblets
Fort Pitt
I hear a worm
Former site of Fort Duquesne, looking towards head of Ohio River
Fan dance
Point State Park
A discarded orange in peril
I know there’s a worm here somewhere
Head of Ohio River (l) & Point State Park Fountain (r)
Meet me in St. Louis
It cannot escape my powers!
Point State Park Fountain (foreground) & Acrisure Stadium (background)
On behalf of wet birds everywhere, have a nice day

Bird IDs: (1, 8, 13, 21) Northern Rough-winged Swallow; (2-7) Mallard (m) in fountain; (9-12) Canada Geese (adults & juveniles); (14) European Starling; (15, 18, 20) American Robin; (16, 19) Northern Cardinal; (17) House Sparrows (m).

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