This storm brought a ton of bird activity to my yard, and airspace above my yard, even though I have no trees other than a couple small saplings, and two small leafless shrubs. And of course the 3 bird feeders on my patio. I DO have a small marsh, which is an attraction for water birds, but not for all of the s species that showed up today, including:
Canada Goose Tundra Swan Mallard Wood Duck Ring-necked Pheasant Sandhill Crane Great Blue Heron Bald Eagle Rough-legged Hawk Sharp-shinned Hawk Turkey Vulture Killdeer Virginia Rail Mourning Dove Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker| Eastern Phoebe Blue Jay American Crow Meadowlark (2 - sitting on the bird feeder!) Horned Lark Tree Swallow Black-capped Chickadee Eastern Bluebird (5) American Robin (flock of 40+) Yellow-rumped Warbler Fox Sparrow (my first of the year) Song Sparrow American Tree Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco (25+) Red-winged Blackbird (30+) Purple Finch (excellent!) House Finch American Goldfinch Pine Siskin Common Redpoll (38+) I'm glad I was at home today! Betsy Beneke Benton County ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
