Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Tricolored Blackbird
Solitary Sandpipers and more
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Bennington Lake
MerryLynn and I walked Bennington Lake on a cold windy morning on April 29. The weather was less than ideal, but the birding was outstanding! There were 8 black-necked stilts, 2 greater yellowlegs, and a Wilson's phalarope on the west side peninsula. New spring migrants included 7 orange crowned warblers, 4 Nashville warblers, 3 yellow warblers, 10 western kingbirds, 6 Hammond's flycatchers, 1 dusky flycatcher, 3 Brewer's sparrows, a chipping sparrow, a Savannah sparrow, 4 house wrens, 3 Vaux's swifts, and a barn swallow. Waterfowl included bufflehead, gadwall, mallard, redhead, ring-necked duck, shoveler, lesser scaup, cinnamon teal, canada geese with goslings, and coots. We had a total of 59 species for the morning. On the way home there were bank swallows in the cut on Berney Drive.
Ginger
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Lesser Goldfinch
Western Kingbirds
Mike and MerryLynn Denny
Friday, April 25, 2008
Cassin's finches
Harris's Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
ML