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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Goose overdose...?

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Snow Geese

Am I on the brink of a birding overdose?
Nope, not at all!! On the contrary!!

After witnessing over 100,000 - Yes! One Hundred Thousand - Snow & Canada Geese last weekend, I am more hooked on spring migration then ever before!
It was an unbelievable sight! I was in total awe...

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Scenery with Canada Geese

Nothing can compare to the experience of seeing such an abundance of life.
In addition to the goose overdose, I had Ross's Goose as a lifer, and a really nice long look at an adult  Peregrine Falcon from our balcony at the 23rd floor, which was a new bird added to my "balcony list".

Saturday we had a day-list of 32 species, and on Sunday we had 34.
The total list for the weekend was 41:
  1. American Black Duck
  2. Canada Goose
  3. Mallard
  4. Green-winged Teal
  5. Bufflehead
  6. Common Merganser
  7. Wild Turkey
  8. Turkey Vulture
  9. Red-tailed Hawk
  10. Rough-legged Hawk
  11. Killdeer
  12. Ring-billed Gull
  13. Herring Gull
  14. Lesser Black-backed Gull
  15. Rock Pigeon
  16. Mourning Dove
  17. Hairy Woodpecker
  18. Blue Jay
  19. American Crow
  20. Common Raven
  21. Black-capped Chickadee
  22. White-breasted Nuthatch
  23. American Robin
  24. European Starling
  25. American Tree Sparrow
  26. Song Sparrow
  27. Northern Cardinal
  28. Red-winged Blackbird
  29. Common Grackle
  30. American Goldfinch
  31. Common Redpoll
  32. House Sparrow
  33. Hooded Merganser
  34. American Wigeon
  35. Ring-necked Duck
  36. Cackling Goose
  37. Northern Pintail
  38. Northern Harrier
  39. American Goldfinch
  40. Horned Lark
  41. Snow Goose
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Common Redpoll (carduelis flammea) 

Last Tuesday's birding excursion we had 36 species as follows:
  1. Canada Goose        
  2. American Black Duck
  3. Mallard
  4. Green-winged Teal
  5. Wild Turkey
  6. Turkey Vulture
  7. Red-tailed Hawk
  8. Killdeer
  9. Ring-billed Gull
  10. Herring Gull
  11. Lesser Black-backed Gull
  12. Great Black-backed Gull
  13. Rock Pigeon
  14. Mourning Dove
  15. Hairy Woodpecker
  16. Blue Jay
  17. American Crow
  18. Black-capped Chickadee
  19. White-breasted Nuthatch
  20. American Robin
  21. European Starling
  22. American Tree Sparrow
  23. Song Sparrow
  24. Northern Cardinal
  25. Red-winged Blackbird
  26. Common Grackle
  27. Common Redpoll
  28. Hoary Redpoll
  29. Northern Pintail
  30. Horned Lark
  31. Dark-eyed Junco
  32. Common Goldeneye
  33. Downy Woodpecker
  34. Pileated Woodpecker
  35. Greater White-fronted Goose
  36. Bald Eagle 
The Greater White-fronted Geese was the highlight of the day together with the Bald Eagle.

All excursions organized by: Tony Beck - Always An Adventure

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Common Redpoll (carduelis flammea) chaos at the Hilda Road Feeder, Ottawa - Canada


6 comments:

  1. Love your blog (: I love geese (and all type of birds) and enjoyed the great photos!

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  2. Thank you Karen! So happy to hear that :o)

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  3. Gorgeous work,Nina...Love all your images,but especially love the birds. ;-)

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  4. Thank you so much Pamela! :o) I will make sure to post many birds.. ;o)

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  5. Very interesting and outstanding work by Nina .. love it.

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  6. Thank you Nawazish :o) So happy to hear you enjoyed my Blog entry :o))

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