Yesterday’s digs at a small park I last detected in 2010.  Surprised to find a silver quarter.  Also a couple of silver blings; the devil thing is pretty cool.

Haven’t found too much lately, and am so desperate for finds to write about, I’m down to what the birds are dropping.

Found me a bird band this morning.  I knew birds were banded for research and all, but who knew this was “a thing” you could find with a metal detector.  Well duh, its metal, isn’t it?  (Well so are Super Bowl rings, and I am still waiting for my first of those).

So yeah, of course there is a web site you can enter the id, and of course I entered it, and it told me my bird was a Canada goose from Lac Nutillilik 75 km N Kuujjuaq, Quebec Canada, banded 07/31/1997.

So that’s that.  Other finds lately, another toasted IH, and a 1946 rosie.

Dug an 1844 large cent, toasted wheatie, and musket ball today.  This is the 8th large copper I have dug from this site, which is a random field I’ve been working on and off since last year.

Still not a single silver.  Getting a bit frustrated in that regard.

I just realized that I never post the depths of my digs, and that is because I never know, and don’t care all that much, but my new pinpointer has a ruler right on it, so it is pretty much automatic.

The largie was 8.5 inches deep, not counting an inch or two for the turf, and the wheatie was about 7 inches deep.  I’m not going to see silver dimes at that depth, in all likelyhood, but I did find a bust silver half in a random field, so we can hope for big silver someday.