Post by Gord on Oct 21, 2005 13:37:08 GMT -8
The girls kicked us boys out of the house for a couple hours before lunch so we went looking for a pumpkin patch and to see what we can see bird in the bird department.
Out in Sumas Prairie (forgot the road...south east area) a huge mixed flock of blackbirds and starlings were at the road edge. Counted a good dozen black headed cowbirds (mostly males) among the starlings, brewer's blackbirds and some red-winged blackbirds. Right before a big truck drove by and scattered the flock, I was just zeroing in on a bird that may have been a rusty blackbird. Sadly most of the flock few out into a field and the ones that remained did not have what I thought might have been a rusty. Worth going back for a look.
We also saw a female Am. Kestrel and a merlin going in after a flock of starlings. Almost every place we stopped we could hear flocks of Am pipits cruising over. What a place to find horned larks, longspurs and something nuts like a wagtail...or a wheatear ;D ;D
We stopped on the Vedder Canal dyke at Keith Wilson Rd to scope out a flock of gulls. Mostly glaucous winged gulls but there was two mew gulls and a herring gull there as well feeding on dead salmon.
Cheers!
Out in Sumas Prairie (forgot the road...south east area) a huge mixed flock of blackbirds and starlings were at the road edge. Counted a good dozen black headed cowbirds (mostly males) among the starlings, brewer's blackbirds and some red-winged blackbirds. Right before a big truck drove by and scattered the flock, I was just zeroing in on a bird that may have been a rusty blackbird. Sadly most of the flock few out into a field and the ones that remained did not have what I thought might have been a rusty. Worth going back for a look.
We also saw a female Am. Kestrel and a merlin going in after a flock of starlings. Almost every place we stopped we could hear flocks of Am pipits cruising over. What a place to find horned larks, longspurs and something nuts like a wagtail...or a wheatear ;D ;D
We stopped on the Vedder Canal dyke at Keith Wilson Rd to scope out a flock of gulls. Mostly glaucous winged gulls but there was two mew gulls and a herring gull there as well feeding on dead salmon.
Cheers!