Showing posts with label American Pipit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American Pipit. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
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Monday, December 13, 2021
Sunday, October 24, 2021
Monday, March 15, 2021
Monday, March 8, 2021
030821 Winter On Boomer Lake's Branches, Grass, and Ice
022121 Herring Gull (Right)
Common bird, eh? The reason why I wanted it was to show the size difference between it and the Ring-billed Gull, as well as the fact that it has pink legs and an appreciably larger bill, while the Ring-billed has yellow-green legs.
030221 Carolina Chickadee
This was pretty backlit, but wonders never cease, it was not a bad shot.
030821 American Pipit
Been trying to get a pic of one of these for quite a while, so lo and behold! As always, they are a distance away, but I got lucky with the sun.
These are the winter pics for what could be the end of the season. Now, let's all get some migrants!
Saturday, January 2, 2021
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Monday, May 18, 2020
Sunday, March 29, 2020
Sunday, November 17, 2019
Sunday, November 10, 2019
Sunday, November 3, 2019
Friday, October 25, 2019
Boomer Migration Prior to Rains
Yellow-rumped Warbler, View 1
American Coots
Yellow-rumped Warbler, View 2
102219
0750-0853/45-47 F (wind chill 41)/clear/W-5/54% RH/30.06-30.09 Hg and rising
Just prior to this two day rain that began very early Wednesday October 23, birds were flying in an erratic manner and preparing by eating as much as they could.
There were a dozen or more migrant Killdeer between Shorebird Jetty and the most southwest jetty. I got the actual count when a man was walking his dog and drove them into the air and they went onto the secondary location. There were some Killdeer there, a smaller amount, but I was unable to get an exact count prior to the incident. There were at least six, but I used the dozen figure.
Since this was actually a minor seasonal cooldown, there were also a few ducks upon the water, which included eighteen Gadwall, a few Northern Shovelers (juveniles), and eight American Coots.
The coots didn't even notice me at Heron Cove, and just came nearer when the above shot was taken.
As many know, Ken Kaufman wrote a book on pishing, and gave many examples on the included CD, but I have developed many of my own calls over the years. One that I came upon was actually learned from a Palm Warbler that I once encountered at Boomer Lake. When the Palm Warbler moved out of my view, I used it to call it back last fall.
Several birds were in sycamores, western soapberry and even within the Bradford pear trees on the west side of The Cove. I'm being very conservative when I say that there were thirty-five Myrtle Yellow-rumped Warblers in the area, along with the Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Carolina Chickadee, Eastern Bluebird, American Pipit, Chipping Sparrow, and Belted Kingfisher. Of course, the pipit will never be located in a tree, yet it had been clearly observed in the lowland nearby.
The warblers, kinglet, sparrow, and kingfisher all responded nicely to my own pish, and I could have shown many more photos of the warblers. The kinglet also availed itself, but was on the move, so out of the several shots that I obtained, none of them were worthy to be posted here. The chippie also hung in the brambles, but writer managed to get a lot of good looks for an extended period of time and just might have come up with other birds.
Then the rain hit and my birding adventures were curtailed. Perhaps tomorrow...
For the Palm Warbler Sighting:
https://debhirt.blogspot.com/2018/10/oklahoma-migratory-species-profile-palm.html
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