My grandma was in town and Commonwealth Park was the perfect place to spend time together, along with my dad, and see lots of cool birds. :D
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| The start of Commonwealth Lake Park |
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| American Wigeon |
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| American Coot (Cracks me up to see them out of the water!) |
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| Cackling Geese |
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| A Golden-Crowned Sparrow trying to blend into the rocks, it seems. |
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| Common Merganser - female |
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| Lots and lots of American Wigeons! Female left, male right. |
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| Odd domesticated goose of sorts. |
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| Greater White-Fronted Geese |
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| Great Blue Heron coming in for the landing. |
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| I thought this was cute. I assume it's another domesticated duck (Commonwealth has several that are always there) buddied up with a Mallard. Such a sweet, unlikely couple! |
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| Great Egret |
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| When I first saw this grey-ish and white little bird, I almost panicked. I didn't recognize it at all... |
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| Then I saw the bit of yellow near the armpit (scientific term ;) and rump. Female Yellow-Rumped Warbler, but what still got me was the total lack of yellow on the throat, which lead me to cross reference with whatbird.com and I concluded it must be a Myrtle's Yellow-Rumped Warbler. |
Other birds we saw:
- Red-Tailed Hawks
- House Sparrows
- Buffleheads
- Double-Crested Cormorants
- Pied-Billed Grebe
- Hooded Mergansers
- Gadwalls
- Northern Flicker
- Bushtits
- Western Scrub-Jay
- House Finches - including an orange variant! I've never seen that before!
- American Goldfinches
