Birds, Birds, Everywhere...: GREAT HORNED OWL

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Sunday, March 3, 2013

Ridgefield - drive loop

As almost always, once two or more people in a group get a lifer, there's no stopping them. So we visited Ridgefield on the way back, thankful to be able to sit and bird at that point. :)

Red-Breasted Sapsucker

Albino Nutria.... very strange.

Song Sparrow

Coyote

A beautiful sight to round off the day.

My beloved Great Horned Owl. :)

Black Phoebe

Golden-Crowned Kinglet

The infamous Pied-Billed Grebe.

A wave good bye from our friend, the Red-Winged Blackbird.

Friday, September 28, 2012

Ridgefield - Carty Unit and Drive Loop

9.25.12

Carty Unit:

American Kestrel - male
Western Scrub-Jay
Cedar Waxwings
Canada Geese
Bushtits
Golden-Crowned Sparrows - they sure weren't gone long. I want to say it's been 4 months since last time I saw one.
Mallards
Killdeer - lots!
Red-Tailed Hawk
Steller's Jays
Song Sparrows
Spotted Towhee
Great Egrets - 3
American Robin
American Crow
Golden-Crowned Kinglet
Turkey Vultures
Northern Flicker - male
White-Crowned Sparrows
Red-Breasted Nuthatches
Black-Capped Chickadee
Red-Breasted Sapsuckers
Sandhill Crane - saw one, heard many
Lesser Yellowlegs

Spotted Towhee

Drive Loop:

Belted Kingfisher
Pied-Billed Grebes
Wood Ducks
Great Horned Owl!
Brown Creeper
Northern Harrier
American Coots
Savannah Sparrow

Male Belted Kingfisher

Pied-Billed Grebe

Great Blue Heron

Great Horned Owl

Wood Ducks

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

This list goes on...

I can't help but to post again about the birds I've been seeing at my new place in Manning. Just as I was thinking I've seen all that I'll see there, more new things show up!

Brown Creeper
American Kestrel
American Crows
Anna's Hummingbird - female
Evening Grosbeaks* - male and female
Red-Breasted Nuthatch
Turkey Vultures - 10 overhead! The most I've ever seen at once.
Great Blue Heron
Eurasian Collared Doves - I don't know how plausible that is, but I'm pretty sure of it, and I think we see them more often than we realize and quickly categorize them as Mourning Doves and move on. I know Doves aren't the most interesting bird to study, but it's something to think about next time you're birding. :)
Purple Finches
American Goldfinches
Owl pellets - last sunday afternoon
Great Horned Owl! - Sunday night
Black-Headed Grosbeak - male + several male and female Evening Grosbeaks
Mallards - pair flying by
Chipping Sparrow

*Lifer! First lifer at my new residence.

Lots of Golden-Crowned Sparrows in the yard and at the feeder. When I saw the Chipping Sparrow yesterday, it was surrounded by G.C. Sparrows and looked so tiny in comparison.

American Goldfinch. I think they're so funny looking when their black cap is more of a mask. Hee hee <3

American Kestrel

Evening Grosbeaks - female and male

Yikes! Here we have a Mourning Dove's egg (or possibly Eurasian Collared Dove) that I believe was the victim of a brutal murder. (By the way, this happened right before I found out about Eurasian Collared Doves, and they have now fled the area.)

European Starling AKA the murderers. The doves and starlings were fighting over a tree, and, sadly the starlings won.

On a lighter note, Yay, an American Robin!

Worst picture ever... supposed to be a male Purple Finch... all crappy, like an attempt to prove Bigfoot exists.... ha!

Owl pellet, possibly from a Great Horned Owl. See the yellow buck teeth of a mouse?

Evening Grosbeaks came back.

Male Black-Headed Grosbeak

Robin's egg (not murdered by starlings)

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Whitaker Ponds

Part two of yesterday, after a call from my cousin to join him and Elvira to try to get the Black Phoebe. Of course I can't refuse such an offer and I was off to join my fellow birders on the exciting chase of a new bird. (We didn't see it, but it was still a great trip!)