Post by kastern on May 10, 2009 18:11:36 GMT -8
My mother's day treat to me was a weekend trip to Tunkwa Lake.
Total species seen: 61 and that is without actually getting out on the water.
I've three or four hundred photos to download but will be trying to get some posted to my blog this week:
birdingbyshantz.blogspot.com
I did want to mention though, that after not seeing one for a year or two, there is once more a very pale colored Red Neck Grebe there. I'm not sure it is the same one that was seen for a number of years....perhaps an offspring of that one. I'll have a better idea when I get photos downloaded and can compare.
Here is the species list:
Cinnamon Teal
Green Wing Teal
Ruddy Duck
Mallard
Barrow's Golden eye
Bufflehead
Lesser Scaup - lots!
Canvas Back
Red Head Duck
Northern Shoveler
American Widgeon
Surf Scoters - 3 *have never seen Surf Scoters there before
Coots - lots
Horned Grebe
Red Neck Grebe *including the pale one - not an albino
Eared Grebe - flock of 12
Canada Geese - lots
Cackling Goose - one
Common Loon
Spotted Sandpiper
Killdeer - lots - more than I've ever seen there
Wilson's Phalarope
Double Crested Cormorant - 1 flew over
Belted Kingfisher
Osprey
Bald Eagle - 2 - a pair nest there every year
Turkey Vulture
Northern Harrier
American Kestral
Merlin
Herring Gull
Sandhill Crane - 20 - a flock circled the lake several times
Mountain Bluebird
Robins
Vesper Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
White Crowned Sparrow
Gold Crowned Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Junco
Hairy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Tree Swallow - lots
Bank Swallow
Yellow Headed Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Brown Headed Cowbird
Marsh Wren
Rufous Hummingbird
Orange Crowned Warbler - quite a few
Yellow Rump Warbler - literally 100's!
Yellow Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Mountain Chickadee
Red Breasted Nuthatch
American Crow
Raven
Starling
Western Meadowlark
Golden Crowned Kinglet
Kathy
Total species seen: 61 and that is without actually getting out on the water.
I've three or four hundred photos to download but will be trying to get some posted to my blog this week:
birdingbyshantz.blogspot.com
I did want to mention though, that after not seeing one for a year or two, there is once more a very pale colored Red Neck Grebe there. I'm not sure it is the same one that was seen for a number of years....perhaps an offspring of that one. I'll have a better idea when I get photos downloaded and can compare.
Here is the species list:
Cinnamon Teal
Green Wing Teal
Ruddy Duck
Mallard
Barrow's Golden eye
Bufflehead
Lesser Scaup - lots!
Canvas Back
Red Head Duck
Northern Shoveler
American Widgeon
Surf Scoters - 3 *have never seen Surf Scoters there before
Coots - lots
Horned Grebe
Red Neck Grebe *including the pale one - not an albino
Eared Grebe - flock of 12
Canada Geese - lots
Cackling Goose - one
Common Loon
Spotted Sandpiper
Killdeer - lots - more than I've ever seen there
Wilson's Phalarope
Double Crested Cormorant - 1 flew over
Belted Kingfisher
Osprey
Bald Eagle - 2 - a pair nest there every year
Turkey Vulture
Northern Harrier
American Kestral
Merlin
Herring Gull
Sandhill Crane - 20 - a flock circled the lake several times
Mountain Bluebird
Robins
Vesper Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
White Crowned Sparrow
Gold Crowned Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Junco
Hairy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Tree Swallow - lots
Bank Swallow
Yellow Headed Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Brown Headed Cowbird
Marsh Wren
Rufous Hummingbird
Orange Crowned Warbler - quite a few
Yellow Rump Warbler - literally 100's!
Yellow Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Mountain Chickadee
Red Breasted Nuthatch
American Crow
Raven
Starling
Western Meadowlark
Golden Crowned Kinglet
Kathy
