This Morning's Maine Birds

[jpak]

common redpolls
brown creeper
white breasted nuthatch
eastern wood pewee
black acpped chickadee
robin
tree swallow
raven

and still a foot of snow on the ground

[jpak]

1. This afternoon's birds

loon
hooded merganser
common merganser
mallard
black duck
wood duck
ring-neck duck
canada goose
great blue heron - in still frozen lake
red winged blackbird
bald eagle
chipping sparrow
song sparrow
grackle
mourning dove
tufted titmouse
dark eyed junco
ruby crowned kinglet

[tigereye]

2. nice! You must live near a lake!

:hi:

[jpak]

3. Yes - and "my" woodcock showed up yesterday, he's "peenting" and doing courtship flights by the barn

also has two tom turkeys strutting in the road - I've never seen them do that before (very cool)

also saw a "partridge" (ruffed grouse) yesterday - better winter survival this year compared to the last few winters.

:hi:

[jpak]

4. The spring migrants showed up today

I had a black-throated blue warbler in my Forsythia this AM

The veerys, thrushes, ovenbirds are here too

turkeys gobbling all over

spring

yup