What a day! It was crazy gorgeous weather - 56 and sunny. Wait, what happened to winter? We started out going up towards the theater and found this Eastern towhee along the way:
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| Eastern Towhee |
We also saw a Cooper's hawk flying over briefly, I guess it saw my camera and took evasive action. We swung by turtle pond, where there were buffleheads!
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| Buffleheads |
Continuing on, we came to a little area with lots of birds. White-throated sparrows, this white-breasted nuthatch:
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| White-breasted Nuthatch |
A red-bellied woodpecker was flying all around us, calling, zipping from tree to tree. Then we saw this red-tailed hawk watching over the area with interest. I wonder if the hawk made the woodpecker nervous?
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| Red-tailed Hawk |
A bunch of tufted titmouses (titmice?) came through, they are so cute! Seeing a titmouse always cheers me up.
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| Tufted Titmouse |
As we were trying to follow the red-bellied woodpecker, this brown creeper came over to distract us:
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| Brown Creeper |
This yellow-bellied sapsucker along with a downy that was too fast for me convinced us that this was a popular location with woodpeckers! Finally we moved on to the reservoir.
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| Yellow-bellied Sapsucker |
Grebe! This pied-billed grebe might look like she's flirting with me, but she actually seemed to shift nervously away. So pretty.
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| Pied-billed Grebe |
Ruddy ducks! A few beaks are turning blue. I hope they stick around until we get to see some ~really~ blue beaks, they are hilarious and awesome. I mean, who wouldn't want to see a cute little duck with a blue beak?!
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| Ruddy Duck |
Shovelers!
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| Northern Shoveler |
Hooded merganser!
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| Hooded Merganser |
Coot!
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| American Coot |
Yes, it was a good day at the reservoir, that's for sure. After that it was back to the museum, where we stopped off to see the hummingbird.
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| Rufous Hummingbird |
The whole walk was delicious! :-)
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| Rufous Hummingbird |
