Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Bennington Lake today

It was much easier birding today than last week – sunshine, balmy temperatures and not much wind.  The common mergansers continued to be the most prevalent bird – 104 of them.  The robins are coming back – we had at least 75 today and they are being reported all around the county.  Today we found the sparrow flock and MerryLynn was able to pick out a tree sparrow in with the many dark-eyed juncos, white-crowned sparrows and song sparrows.  Other birds of note were a Townsend's solitaire, a northern shrike, a merlin, two golden-crowned kinglets and two great horned owls.  We saw a total of 30 species today.  Ginger
 

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