New bird today:
-Black-billed Magpie (saw them while my train was paused in Colorado)
Honorable mentions to the huge flocks of sandhill cranes, and "red shafted" northern flickers
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New bird today (rare) (highy esteemed) (2nd appearance in the county):
-red necked grebe
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New birds today!!
-Horned Lark
-Lapland Longspur
-Snow Bunting
-Savanna Sparrow
-Common Merganser
-Trumpeter Swan
-Tundra Swan
Tried to see some Eurasian Tree Sparrows (!!) and American Pippits but they avoided us yet :3
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New bird today:
Fox Sparrow
Seen stomping and clawing at the ground under a bird feeder. My 175th lifer and an extremely pretty one at that!
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New Bird:
Least Sandpiper :)
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New Birds Today!
-Red Shouldered Hawk
-Merlin
-Mourning Warbler
-Wilson's Warbler
-American Redstart
-Magnolia Warbler
-Veery
There were a ton of flycatchers about to which my companion could see and identify but I could not! I need to study them
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new birds yesterday:
white eyed vireo :)
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New birds this last month:
green heron
eurasian jackdaw
carrion crow
eurasian jay
coal tit
western house-martin
eurasian moorhen
egyptian goose
eurasian magpie
hooded crow
graylag goose
gray heron
great tit
eurasian blue tit
greater spotted woodpecker
common raven
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I think I forgot a couple of updates here.. but new birds today!
-summer tanager
-scarlet tanager (that's right!! both!)
-louisiana waterthrush
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new birds this weekend:
-eastern wood pewee
-arcadian flycatcher
-hooder warbler
-gray-cheeked thrush
-cliff swallow
I missed the yellow-throated vireo my friend saw :<
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new birds today:
-pectoral sandpipers (tiny)
-hooded merganser
also saw a northern harrier which is crazy, they don't usually come so close to town
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Pretty sure I saw a Black-throated Blue Warbler yesterday and heard a Swainsons Thrush this morning.
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new birds today!
-chesnut sided warbler
-indigo bunting
almost saw a mourning warbler but he was too shy... maybe next year
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new birds today:
-blue-headed vireo
-ovenbird
-black-and-white warbler
-blue-winged warbler (by sound only)
-broad-winged hawk
I had to do these all on my own
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new birds today!!
-common nighthawk
-rose-breasted grosbeak
-yellow-throated warbler
-black-throated green warbler
-blackburnian warbler!!!!!!
-red-eyed vireo
-northern waterthrush
wow!
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new birds today!!
-wood thrush!! singing beautifully in far distance
-great-crested flycatcher
-warbling vireo
-common yellowthroat (these guys were everywhere when i started hearing them)
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new birds yesterday:
-gray catbird (skulking in a campus yew)
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new birds yesterday:
-northern house wren
honorable mentions the palm warbler who hung out with me for like 5 minutes
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new birds today:
-LESSER YELLOWLEGS!!!
-SOLITARY SANDPIPER!!!!
-SPOTTED SANDPIPER!!!!!
-SWAMP SPARROW!!!!!!!
-BARN!!!!!! SWALLOW!!!!
that's 104 birds in the season
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New birds today:
-Brown Thrasher
-Purple Finch
-Eastern Towhee
-Blue Grey Gnatcatcher
-Yellow Warbler
-Pine Warbler
-Palm Warbler
-Northern Parula
-Orange-Crowned Warbler
One of the best days in a while!! :>
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new birds today:
-great egret!!! hanging out in a city park
-chipping sparrow!
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new bird today:
-yellow-rumped warbler. I was having the darndest time IDing them and then two got into a fight right in the middle of the street lol
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new birds today!!
-mute swan. two nesting pairs
-sandhill crane. got into a scuffle with a goose
-sora! didn't see but heard often
-osprey!!
also saw tons of greater yellowlegs, who are very beautiful.
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new birds today!
-purple martins
-rough-winged swallows
-ring-necked pheasants
honorable mentions:
-eastern meadowlark. I love them!!
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new birds today:
-redhead
-common loon
-greater yellowlegs
it was dreary wet and unpleasant and i was in a bad mood but it was still nice to see them
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New birds today!
-american kestrel (hunting in the hills on Northerly Island)
-long-tailed duck (3 of these rarities floating in the harbor)
New birds today:
-Blue-winged teal! Actually I saw these last week but forgot to post.
-Pied-billed grebe. I liked this guy
Honorable mentions:
-saw a red-tailed hawk dive after a mallard in a creek. A Canada goose was also in the scuffle. Didn't seem to get the mallard at all
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New birds today:
-Red-headed woodpecker! We saw three of them.
Honorable mentions:
-Got very close to a barred owl. Three were hooting to each other and it pissed off some crows. Friends pic below
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New birds today:
-ruby crowned kinglet
-golden rowned kinglet
So cool to see these guys. I'm a little uncertain about the ID of the ruby crowned, but the goldens were singing and hanging out with me for a while :)
Honorable mentions:
-tree swallows calling and feeding on the wing
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New birds today:
-northern flicker !!! wow
Honorable mentions
-wood duck again. Finally got a good long gander at one. What a beautiful bird.
-song sparrow; first time hearing them sing.
-first time seeing goldfinches in their winter colors
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New birds today:
-eastern meadowlark
-pintail duck
-greater white fronted goose
Honorable mentions:
-wood duck (by sight for the first time)
-green winged teal (first good look)
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New birds today:
-coopers hawk
-tree swallow (so pretty!)
-american tree sparrow
-american woodcock!!!! we saw the flight displays, really enchanting..
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New birds today:
-northern harrier
-eastern bluebird
-wood duck (furtively whistling in the underbrush - would love to spot one next time)
-starlings in murmuration
-500 grackles flying overhead
