For the first day of this new, little-yearless year, we tried to relive the glory of the last day of the last glorious year. In other words, we went to the same place we went to yesterday, the Irving Park Cemetery. We hoped we could see the merlin again, but it wasn’t there, and the only birds we spotted were a flock of ROCK PIGEONS. Earlier, though, Pole saw a MORNING DOVE, and so after only one day, she’s already ahead of me.

A rather drab outing and not worth posting except that it’s the first day of the year. And since this year won’t be crazy compulsive like last year, we’re no longer going to post entries for every bird we see. I’m afraid I’m only crazy compulsive enough to keep the lists up to date. End of transmission.