[Birdtalk] Farmington Bay 2-20-09

[bcurrie100 at comcast.net]

Seen today from 6:20 a.m to 11:00 a.m. 



Barn Owl (driving down the west dike at about 6:20) 

Bald Eagles (mostly adults this time) 

Northern Harrier 

Great Blue Heron 

Glaucous Gull 

Western Gull 

Herring Gull 

Ring-billed Gull 

California Gull 

Great Blue Heron 

Bufflehead 

Common Goldeneye 

Red-winged Blackbird 

Canada Goose 


The Glaucous and Western Gull this time were at the very end of the west dike where everybody have been photographing the eagles.  When I went by the first bridge (going south) on the west dike at 11:00 where all the gulls and pelicans have been this past week, there was absolutely nothing up close.  Everything was at least 300 yards away.  And nobody was there scaring them away so not sure why it was so abandoned. 



I got a report that just inside the AIC causeway gate, to the north, there were several hundred swans (all tundra I assume, but I was not given the specifics) early this afternoon. 



Brian
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