Saturday, April 16, 2011

Birds for a change

This evening I visited Ridgefield Wildlife Refuge with a friend in hopes of seeing yellow-headed blackbirds. We heard them but couldn't spot any.  We were thrilled however, to see the first babies of the year, five Canada goose goslings that looked no more than a day old, just getting used to the water.  A bald eagle also flew over the car and I snapped a few good shots of it.
List of our bird sightings:
Pied-billed grebe
Great egret
Great blue heron
Canada goose (huge flocks of the "cackling" subspecies, scattered pairs of the "common" ssp.)
Mallard duck
Gadwall
American wigeon
Northern shoveler
Cinnamon teal
Green-winged teal
Ring-necked duck
Bufflehead
Hooded merganser
American coot
Bald eagle
Northern harrier
American kestrel
Greater yellowlegs
Wilson's snipe
Killdeer
Kingfisher
Tree swallow
[?] wren (very vocal little guy!)
Robin
Starling
Red-winged blackbird
Yellow-headed blackbird (heard, not seen)
27 species total, that I know of anyway.

 




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