Another Woodpecker last week, this time a Northern Flicker. This is super easy, but I don’t have any better ones at the moment.
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Month: June 2016
Feathers on Friday
I was in Cranbrook for a soccer tournament this past weekend, and we went to a small pond called Fosters Small Pond, where we found a multitude of birds including a pair of Western Bluebirds.
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Prairie Birder The Cats and The Birds
Best Photos of The First Half of The Year
This post is for the photos, so I’ll keep the words short. All of the photos after a certain header are from that place/event, and they are the best that I took there. Enjoy!
CRANBROOK
LONG-EARED OWLS
JUNE FOURTH BIG MORNING
THE BOWKAN BIRDCOUNT
MY GREAT CANADIAN BIRDATHON
BIRDING AROUND THE VALLEY
EAGLE-WATCHING
ENGLAND
What Bird Wednesday
Both Josiah and William got my Downy Woodpecker last week. A week and a day until I’m out of school and birding all day long, so expect some harder ones soon!
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Feathers on Friday
A Great Blue Heron that I saw on a school field trip.
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Prairie Birder The Cats and The Birds
Certifying a Golf Course at 8:00 AM
After eight, we started seeing other people around the course. That didn’t bother us too much, as we were mostly staying away from the holes, and doing pretty well there anyways (read the first post in this series of two here). We found a nice little creek containing Red-eyed Vireos, Warbling Vireos, and 3 Cape May Warblers.
They flew in a large circle around us, pausing occasionally in a tree, so we could get some photos.
Going closer to the green, we saw an American Goldfinch, and heard a Lincoln’s Sparrow in a cluster of bushes and trees near hole 11.
A Tennessee Warbler sang from on top of a tree close by.
Almost back at the entrance, an Osprey flew by too quickly for a photo. In the pond that we had first seen, a couple of Red-winged Blackbirds were singing nicely
The other group appeared, and since birders are never competitive, we checked our numbers. 49 species was quite good, until we realised that they had 50. Considering everything, it wasn’t that bad of a result. the full list of species (including the drive home) is here. Thanks for reading my posts!
What Bird Wednesday
Congratulations to Prairie Birder and Josiah for getting lest week’s Belted Kingfisher. This one shouldn’t be too hard.
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