New Quiz! New condo birding! Look ahead! Quiz Answers!

I feel the need to put something online!  New quiz photos! All taken from my balcony this morning... Answers should go online tomorrow (and hey, maybe a new quiz).. Answers to yesterday's post are below.

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Condo Birding - May 4th

Canada Goose  4
Mallard  8
Lesser Scaup  25
Surf Scoter  15
White-winged Scoter  35
Long-tailed Duck  200
Red-breasted Merganser  20
Common Loon  5
Double-crested Cormorant  100
Great Blue Heron  10
Osprey  1
Sharp-shinned Hawk  1
Cooper's Hawk  2
Killdeer  2
Spotted Sandpiper  2     durinal migrants
Lesser Yellowlegs  50     5 groups, dirunal migrants, all going W
Bonaparte's Gull  4
Ring-billed Gull  40
Herring Gull  18
Great Black-backed Gull  1
Caspian Tern  15
Common Tern  30
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  4
Mourning Dove  8
Chimney Swift  15
Red-bellied Woodpecker  2     foy dirunal migrants
Downy Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker  2
Eastern Kingbird  10     dirunal migrants
Warbling Vireo  2     dirunal migrants
Blue Jay  750     accurate count of dirunal migrants. 98% going EAST (why?!)
American Crow  8     one bird looked really large. one small looking bird escorted away by the locals (quiet)
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  20
Purple Martin  10
Tree Swallow  15
Bank Swallow  20
Barn Swallow  20
Cliff Swallow  10
Black-capped Chickadee  2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  3     1 dirunal migrant
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1
Eastern Bluebird  5
American Robin  20
European Starling  450
Nashville Warbler  5
Northern Parula  1     foy - singing (first condo record - #190)
Yellow Warbler  13
Palm Warbler  2
Yellow-rumped Warbler  17
Chipping Sparrow  15     some dirunal migrants
Song Sparrow  1
White-throated Sparrow  6
White-crowned Sparrow  3     foy
Northern Cardinal  1
Red-winged Blackbird  950
Rusty Blackbird  10
Common Grackle  200
Brown-headed Cowbird  100
Orchard Oriole  1     female type dirunal migrant
Baltimore Oriole  5     dirunal migrants
House Finch  6
Purple Finch  7
Pine Siskin  125     two large flocks of 40, 50 birds - then small bits (sometimes mixed w/ AMGO)
American Goldfinch  125     steady small groups - much less than yest.
House Sparrow  8

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Look ahead - right now Friday looks like a vagrant day. There is a lot of chances over the next several days for awesome birding though! Get the right rain/migration mix and it'll be a day to remember.

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Quiz Answers (yesterdays post):


Bobolink
Pine Siskin
Rusty Blackbird
Chipping Sparrow
Yellow Warbler
Red-winged Blackbird
Red-winged Blackbird
American Robin
Chipping Sparrow
Purple Finch
Blue Jay
Yellow Warbler
Pine Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Pine Warbler
European Starling