Yesterday around 7pm, I saw three sandpipers on the rocky shore of Fall
Creek near the Cascadilla Boat house. I think they were juvenile Spotted
Sandpipers: bobbing tails, pink/orange bills with a dark tip on the bill,
thrush-like markings on the upper breast, soft peeping calls, flew off
toward
I walked through the woods along Fall Creek to the Boat House and along the
shore of Stewart Park. I saw Common Mergansers and heard a kingfisher
along the creek. I saw two cormorants out on a log, far out; and then what
I thought might have been two grebes, but they were dabbling far out. They
Today, Ann Mitchell and I assisted this morning's Lab of O's Bird Sleuth
Summer Educator Retreat bird walk in Stewart Park (7-8:30am). Participants
included a middle school teacher from Los Angeles who teaches an eighth
grade ornithology elective for 80 students in addition to a birding section
I hope everyone got to go out and bird today!!! What a gorgeous day!!!
Today, 12:15-2:15
Downy, Hairy, Red Bellied Woodpeckers at boatyard feeders at inlet
5-10 bluebirds, goldfinches, and possible Purple Finch (have a blurry
picture) in tree with tons of seeds, behind firefighter training area
