Walked and birded the Orange and Red trails at Soldier's Delight Natural Environmental Area and found the following birds between 6:30 and 9:30 AM today:
Barred Owl
American Crow
Eastern Towhee
Common Raven
Northern Cardinal
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
American Goldfinch
Carolina Chickadee
Brown Creeper
Dark-eyed Junco
AMERICAN TREE SPARROW - 2 in flock of Junco's w/1 Field Sparrow
Hairy Woodpecker
American Robin
Downy Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Blue jay
Northern Flicker
Carolina Wren
Field Sparrow
Pileated Woodpecker
Very surprised by the lack of winter finches, i.e. no Redpolls, Crossbills, or Grosbeaks, which are being reported en masse just to our north.
Also stopped at Liberty Resevoir:
Common Loon
Common Merganser
Ring-necked Duck
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Pied-billed Grebe
Bald Eagle
And at Piney Run Park, a nice abundance of waterfowl:
Canada Geese - 1,000 + (no cacking or GWF)
Pied-billed Grebe - 16
Ruddy Duck - 4
Common Merganser - 52
Hooded Merganser - 40 (very active, and close in, nice displays and calls by the males)
Lesser Scaup - 1
Canvasback - 6
American Widgeon - 12
American Coot - 43
Great Blue Heron - 1
Bufflehead - 14
Herring Gull - 2
Ring-billed Gull - 15+
Good Birding,
Ross
Ross Geredien
Good Migrations Photography
www.goodmigrationsphoto.com
1-610-850-5035
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