Photo: Hooded merganser by Elizabeth Harris
Hello everyone,
We made our goal of having more bird species than birders, our weekly goal during the winter. We had quite a nice flock of Dark-eyed Juncos by the south bridge and they were joined by a White-throated Sparrow.
A few Red-breasted Mergansers put on a show for us in the marina. One bird caught a large fish and two others chased it all around the piers. I didn’t know that they could swim that quickly! The bird with the fish was not willing to share and suddenly gulped the fish down all at once. The other Mergansers swam away looking hungry and disappointed.
BIRDERS: JC, Eric, Jennie, Mike, Cheryl, Paul, Lucy, Mark C., Leslie, Judy, Marisa, Renate and welcome to Sarah, Dave, Manny and Karina.
TIME: 8:00am to 10:00am
WEATHER: 41 degrees, cloudy, a bit rainy
Compiler: Cheryl
Photographer: Eric (who found a brown creeper that the rest of us didn’t spot)
Canada Goose Number observed: 49
Mallard Number observed: 7
Common Merganser Number observed: 1
Red-breasted Merganser Number observed: 36
Ring-billed Gull Number observed: 1
Herring Gull Number observed: 1
Great Blue Heron Number observed: 3
Red-tailed Hawk Number observed: 1
Downy Woodpecker Number observed: 1
Northern Flicker Number observed: 1
American Crow Number observed: 5
Black-capped Chickadee Number observed: 1
European Starling Number observed: 74
American Robin Number observed: 17
House Sparrow Number observed: 6
American Goldfinch Number observed: 1
American Tree Sparrow Number observed: 3
Dark-eyed Junco Number observed: 9
White-throated Sparrow Number observed: 1
Northern Cardinal Number observed: 1
If you’d like more information about a bird, check out the All About Birds ID guide:
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/
Corrections, additions and comments are welcome.
Good birding everyone,
Jennie