Friday, September 27, 2024

Day 17.259: Shafted (and other bird identifiers)

These were some of our birding sightings from this morning. 

Red-tailed hawk at the top of the Norway spruce

White-throated sparrow 

Swamp sparrow 

Northern flicker. They were previously called yellow-shatter flickers due to these splendid flight feather shafts. In the west they are red but both yellow-shafted and red-shafted are identified as a single species. 

Gray catbird. Looking a little less bedraggled than last week (but in the same spot)

Blue jay- one of our group had just watched this one swallow a whole acorn. Quite impressive.

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