Day 17.358: Birding into 2025

Thursdays mean early morning birding even when it’s January 2nd. Here is some of what we saw. 

Red-tailed hawk perching quietly just above our heads as we tried to locate a calling titmouse

Another - or the same hawk spotted a little later

We estimated there were around 300 Canada geese on the mudflats within our field of view 

And another 100 flew over as we stood there

Cooper’s hawk

The same Coop. 

There were a few interloping ducks both American black ducks (pictured) and mallards

Red-tailed hawk soaring

Later, we once again found ourselves standing right underneath the tree that this red-tailed hawk was perched in

Our pileated woodpecker friend stuck his head out a few times then went back inside for some noisy home-improvements

Common merganser

Pair of common mergansers