Day 19.044: Saturday birding

To avoid the overnight snow, we gathered with our nature group in the afternoon. This week we were at Goose Rocks Beach in Kennebunkport. Here is some of what we saw from the beach, by Little River and on the streets nearby. 

Black scoters

Surf scoter

Common eider

Distant (and small) horned grebe

Northern mockingbird

Northern mockingbird

House sparrows 

Tufted titmouse in a Scotch pine (one of the trees we’ve studied in recent weeks) 

Bufflehead 

Mallards

American black duck

Common goldeneye 

Red-breasted merganser

Bald eagle

Bald eagle

Downy woodpecker 

Red-breasted nuthatch

This week’s tree - the northern white cedar 

Snow covered seaweed on the beach