Two magnificent Northern pintails were seen on Factory pond on 3/7/19,
diving along with many mallards, gadwall, wigeons & a couple
canvasbacks, buffles & golden-eye. Many birds are on Mill pond along
Rte. 90 but light has been wrong for me to see what.
I saw a GBH at the boat launch with many Canadas. The GBH seems to have
been hanging around all winter.
This report is delayed but on Thurs. 3/7/19, Becky & I were looking at
several obvious male A. wigeons in breeding plumage. A couple had more
white on the wings/sides than we thought was usual but one had a very
impressive amount of white, much more than the others. We tried to think
of what other duck might have mated with a wigeon to get so much pure
white & came up empty-handed. Hopefully someone else has seen them. She
sent several photos to Dave Nutter & Bob McGuire. Dave thought there
was an abnormal amount of white in the flight feathers but even the
white shoulder feathers were bright & flashy.
This evening, we were pleased after 2 yrs. of drought, to have seen 2
short-eared owls at 7:03 p.m.. Becky got a good picture even in the
dark, foggy conditions. To save harassment of the owls, the location is
not given.
Last evening we saw several good sized flocks of robins on local back
roads. Horned larks are still along the side roads picking up gravel. I
must remember to put some sand for the birds near my feeders both for
bird baths & for needed grit to eat when it's snowy or icy.
The beautiful little skunk comes nearly every night to get food scraps.
Hopefully the red fox is getting some, too.
Fritzie
Union Springs
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