Saturday, April 23, 2016

Sightings week of 4/17/2015

chipping sparrow
song sparrow
house sparrow
gold finch
house finch
robin
blue jay
broad winged hawk

blue bird
tree swallow
red winged blackbird
yellow rumped warbler
northern cardinal
trumpeter swan
northern flicker
northern shoveler
hooded merganser
wood duck
mallard
pied billed grebe
blue heron
egret
bald eagle
coopers hawk
Broad Winged Hawk (?)

Goldfinch

Northern Cardinal

Song Sparrow

Yellow Rumped Warbler

Chipping Sparrow

Tree Sparrow

Blue Bird

House Finch

Red Winged Blackbird

Northern Shoveler

Song Sparrow

Trumpeter Swan (? I think)


Sightings Week of 4/10/2016

hermit thrush
chipping sparrow
wood duck
green heron
slate juncos
chicadees
white breasted nuthatch
gold finch
house finch
osprey
crow
northern cardinal
pileated woodpecker
downy woodpecker
hairy woodpecker
red bellied woodpecker
robin
song sparrow
house sparrow
blue heron
common loon
common merganser
hooded merganser
pied billed grebe
lesser scaup
Hooded Merganser

Common Merganser

Common Merganser Pair

Wood Duck

Hooded Merganser

Hooded Mergansers

Trumpeter Swans

Brown Creeper

Lesser Scaups

Lesser Scaups

Great Blue Heron

Pied Billed Grebes



Common Loon


Monday, March 28, 2016

The spring that started it all.

 Wait.  Those aren't Mallards.  What are those weird ducks?  That string of partial thoughts is what started it for me.  Spring 2014, home on maternity leave and between jobs.  Pics with few words for this blog.  Just labels.

Common Mergansers
 Hooded Mergansers
 Mallard and Canada Goose
 Bald Eagle
 Loons
 Loons - I didn't realize they flocked, they are usually so solitary
 Eastern Phoebe
 Red Bellied Woodpacker




Great American Egret