Winter Birding Again !!

One of our most enjoyable activities each year is spending the winter servicing and filling the bird feeders at the local bird banding station and recording the birds that are in the season when the nets cannot be put up. This year we started a bit earlier than usual after the first decent snowfall of the year.

Great fun.

We had 14 species of birds in all this morning : you can see the checklist on eBird here – https://ebird.org/checklist/S61442500

Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) 48
Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) 5
Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus) 1
Downy Woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens) 2
Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata) 4
Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) 6
White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis) 1
European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) 38
American Robin (Turdus migratorius) 19
House Finch (Haemorhous mexicanus) 6
Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis) 9
White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) 5
Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) 1
Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) 3