Post by JeffOver on Oct 12, 2009 17:03:49 GMT -8
Hi all,
I took a couple hours from about 12:00 till 2:00 to check out Cheam Wetlands today. A bald eagle greeted me with not much more than a cursory glance as I walked toward the loop trail. Activity was relatively quiet--honking geese on the lake made the fall day seem even more fall-like. Towhees and a song sparrow or two rustled around in the leaves while chickadees fluttered around higher up. When I had passed over the second bridge, I glanced ahead and saw a medium to small bird flutter across the path. Probably a towhee I thought, as I approached. It hadn't flown very far in, so I was able to get my binos on it to confirm my hunch. I was quite surprised to see a white eye-ring on a rather greyish bird, and then he turned to show me his reddish rump and wingtips. It turned out to be a hermit thrush.
Unfortunately there were still enough leaves to make getting a picture tough--here's a cropped version of the best one I got. You can definitely see the colour change in the tail.
As I moved on, I discovered a small flock of golden-crowned kinglets, which then discovered me because of my high-quality pishing (or so I like to think! ;D ). The boardwalk yielded mostly geese--which I'm not even confident I can identify anymore with all those different species of Canada and Cackling. A pied-billed grebe and two mallards were the extent of other waterfowl that I could see.
A quick jaunt down the creek trail yielded a small snake, some Robins, and a Red-breasted sapsucker
besides others I mentioned earlier.
A nice little break from school work--something I'm so thankful for, knowing I deserve absolutely none of it!
I took a couple hours from about 12:00 till 2:00 to check out Cheam Wetlands today. A bald eagle greeted me with not much more than a cursory glance as I walked toward the loop trail. Activity was relatively quiet--honking geese on the lake made the fall day seem even more fall-like. Towhees and a song sparrow or two rustled around in the leaves while chickadees fluttered around higher up. When I had passed over the second bridge, I glanced ahead and saw a medium to small bird flutter across the path. Probably a towhee I thought, as I approached. It hadn't flown very far in, so I was able to get my binos on it to confirm my hunch. I was quite surprised to see a white eye-ring on a rather greyish bird, and then he turned to show me his reddish rump and wingtips. It turned out to be a hermit thrush.
Unfortunately there were still enough leaves to make getting a picture tough--here's a cropped version of the best one I got. You can definitely see the colour change in the tail.As I moved on, I discovered a small flock of golden-crowned kinglets, which then discovered me because of my high-quality pishing (or so I like to think! ;D ). The boardwalk yielded mostly geese--which I'm not even confident I can identify anymore with all those different species of Canada and Cackling. A pied-billed grebe and two mallards were the extent of other waterfowl that I could see.
A quick jaunt down the creek trail yielded a small snake, some Robins, and a Red-breasted sapsucker
besides others I mentioned earlier.A nice little break from school work--something I'm so thankful for, knowing I deserve absolutely none of it!
