Brrrrr!!
Double brrrrr! TUB with Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Matthew Young
Treble brrrrrrr!!
Blue Jay
Black-capped Chickadee
Horned Lark
Singing Horned Lark
Female Mealy Redpoll
Mealy Redpoll
White-breasted Nuthatch
Male Evening Grosbeak
Despite the biting cold I had a fabulous day birding mostly visiting bird feeding stations dotted around the vicinity. We saw maybe six Hoary (or Arctic) Redpolls and at least 600 Mealy Redpolls including around 300 close up nervous birds at one feeding station!We also saw at least 60 Evening Grosbeaks - a lifer for me. Annoyingly, my camera battery conked out quite early on and I missed several brilliant opportunties to photograph this gorgeous relative of the Hawfinch at close range. Other great birds included a horde of Horned (Shore) Larks, a magnificent Rough-legged Hawk (Buzzard) and a couple of Snow Buntings seen in an arctic snow blizzard that suddenly kicked up.
Give me hot weather any day!
1 comment:
Glad to see you are still seeing some nice stuff. Rich Bonser's in California at present, what a contrast with the weather.
The rain has stopped here and we have had a bit of sun over the last few days but it's going much cooler the second half of the week particularly the Southern half of Britain....
ATB Laurie -
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