All photos taken from my balcony this morning... I'll post the full ebird checklist at the bottom, but if you don't want to spoil the fun - do the quiz first!
Canada Goose 12 FOY goslings
Wood Duck 1
American Black Duck 1
Mallard 12
Surf Scoter 25
White-winged Scoter 60
Long-tailed Duck 200
Hooded Merganser 2
Red-breasted Merganser 40
Ruddy Duck 10
Common Loon 16
Double-crested Cormorant 150
Green Heron 1 foy
Turkey Vulture 7
Osprey 2
Cooper's Hawk 1
Broad-winged Hawk 1
Killdeer 3
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Ring-billed Gull 40
Herring Gull 18
Great Black-backed Gull 1
Caspian Tern 15
Common Tern 20
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 3
Mourning Dove 12
Chimney Swift 18
Belted Kingfisher 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 4
Eastern Kingbird 1 foy
Warbling Vireo 1 foy
Blue Jay 350
American Crow 8
Horned Lark 1
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 20
Purple Martin 15
Tree Swallow 45
Bank Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 30
Cliff Swallow 5
Black-capped Chickadee 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 foy
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2
Eastern Bluebird 2
American Robin 30
Brown Thrasher 1
European Starling 100
Nashville Warbler 1
Yellow Warbler 7
Palm Warbler 8
Pine Warbler 3
Yellow-rumped Warbler 14
Prairie Warbler 1 rare. first for condo. male arrived around 10am, sang 3 times, then never seen or heard again... probably just wandering around looking for a good place to spend the day? (not a dirunal migrant)
warbler sp. 25
Chipping Sparrow 29 diurnal migration
Song Sparrow 2
White-throated Sparrow 5
Northern Cardinal 2
Bobolink 4
Red-winged Blackbird 750
Rusty Blackbird 10
Common Grackle 300
Brown-headed Cowbird 175
Orchard Oriole 1 foy female type - dirunal migration
Baltimore Oriole 1 foy dirunal migrant
House Finch 5
Purple Finch 9 first condo record. dirunal migrants
Pine Siskin 24
American Goldfinch 500
House Sparrow 10
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It was a pretty exciting morning... Most of the birds moving were blackbirds, but there was also a large movement of Blue Jays and American Goldfinch... There was just enough neotropic migrants moving to keep me really excited...
A quick walk around edgelake park turned up more FOY - including Black-and-White, BT Green, Norther Parula, Scarlet Tanager etc.
I'll be back at this tomorrow, and hopefully with a new photo quiz! I'll post the answers to this one tomorrow (hopefully) - so do it fast if you're interested!
It's the most wonderful time of year! Migration thoughts are still appearing on twitter... I'm keeping a very close eye on next Thursday/Friday/Saturday/Sunday...... Very close indeed......
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