A cloudy spring Saturday

J did a fun thing today – after biking to the fairgrounds to visit a Retro Game Fest, he rode out west into the wetlands and then was surrounded by birdsong, on all sides, with nobody else around. He made videos, and when he got home I used the Merlin app to identify the birds: marsh wren, belted kingfisher (which I’ve seen before but apparently haven’t heard), common yellowthroat (I don’t even know what that is), red-winged blackbird (which he also saw), and a whole flock of greater white-fronted geese, which sounded almost like a loud machine when they all took off. He also saw at least one silent great blue heron.

My day was not so interesting, although I did go find some wildflowers. I spent a bunch of time mowing, and even more time trying to download a bunch of content from my personal Skype chat a few items at a time, since the download file it created for me couldn’t locate them, and since I was afraid that Teams wouldn’t understand about them when I imported my data there (Skype is going away tomorrow), since it’s not usual to have a specially named chat with oneself. Sure enough, Teams is aware of the chat but can’t find the text or files. I guess they don’t expect people to keep notes that way.