A great weekend of birding! Migration season is going well and I am loving the challenged by all the new birds around! As a new birder, I've really loved seeing my life list and year list grow. This past weekend was just as exiting as the last. I got a chance to get some great migrants, a Tricolored Heron in a small pond and a white-crowned sparrow outside my front door hanging out with an eastern Chipmunk! It was one of those times I wish I had my camera. It was also spoiled by my dog barking at the Chipmunk and scaring both mammal and bird! The next few weeks will truly be great. I am really looking forward to seeing many different nesting birds in all of the local parks!
There will be some great challenges along the way: finding birds through very leafy trees, improving my birding by ear skills and trying to become a bird photographer. Below is a quick picture I took of the Tricolored Heron! What do you think?
Outing #31:
Eastern Kingbird
Indigo Bunting LB
Semipalmated Plover
Tricolored Heron LB
White Crowned LB
Willet LB
2012 Total: 154 (46 to go!)
Life List Total: 178 (22 to go!)
The Tricolored Heron!
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