[Birdtalk] Friday and Saturday at Farmington Bay

[Steve Coleman]

I spent several hours Friday and today at Farmington Bay doing Cub Scout workshops and it looked more like the middle of March than February out there.
Both days we saw:
American White Pelicans in large numbers hundred plus
Tundra Swans
Bald Eagles
Northern Harriers
Northern Rough-legged Hawk
American Kestrels
Red-tailed hawk
Great Blue Herons (This morning on the Rookery north of the Nature Center)
Song Sparrows
White-crowned Sparrows
Red-winged Blackbirds
Northern Pintails
Ruddy Duck
Northern Shovelers
Scaups
Green-wing Teal
Canada Goose
Pied Billed Grebe
American Coot
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull 
Glaucous Gull
Herring Gull
Ring-necked Pheasant
Western Meadow Lark
American Avocet
Why I said it seemed like March, I always drive through with my windows down so I can listen as well as look and this morning the Song Sparrows, Red-wing Blackbirds and Meadow Larks were singing their hearts out and this is the earliest I have seen American Avocets out there. Usually my first sighting each year is on Swan Day the second weekend of March.
My backyard has become Pine Siskin heaven I have had more Pine Siskins this last week than ever before. Check out my Birding Blog for some nice pictures of Pine Siskins at my feeders and a couple of picuters of one espeacially friendly Pine Siskin who actually stood on my finger this evening when I went out to refill my feeders.

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Happy Birding 
Steve