Day 18.139: Anniversary birding

Our little nature group turns one year old tomorrow. Today we celebrated with cake (thanks to Exile #2) and a “little sit” a one hour stationary bird count. We managed 35 species. Here are a few of them:

Gray catbird

Red-tailed hawk mobbed by (likely) red-winged blackbird

Northern flicker

Great crested flycatcher 

That same bird is right in the middle of this photo. Can you see it?

Bald eagle

Osprey

Baltimore oriole playing hard to get

Red-tailed hawk carrying a pine branch

I thought it might be holding it in its talons, but it turns out it was just very long

Eastern kingbird. It showed up just after we stopped counting

Baltimore oriole - still playing hard to get