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091020 Birding On a Shoestring: Wyoming Part 3
082520 Common Merganser
Common Raven
Black-billed Magpie
082720 Brewer's Blackbird
Ethete area
Female Greater Sage Grouse
Sage Thrasher
Wild Horses 1
Wild Horses 2
082820 Vesper Sparrow
Red Canyon
082920 Trumpeter Swan
Ray Lake Marsh
This wound up my time in Wyoming. My hopes are to be returning soon to locate many more target birds.
Sunday, January 19, 2020
Sunday, November 24, 2019
Friday, November 22, 2019
Fall Migratory Movement Continues with Subtle Fare
Female Common Merganser
111619
0740-0829/40-44 F (35 wind chill)/clear/SE-8/67-60% RH/30.0 Hg and rising
It was a little cool that morning and we had a surprise or two, which always spurs one on for more.
Just off the Cove, we sported nine active Buffleheads, six Ruddy Ducks, a pair of American Coots,
a Pied-billed Grebe, with eleven Killdeer between Shorebird Jetty, the west side and the southeast lowland corner.
Four female Common Mergansers were the highlight quietly hiding off the west side of the Cove, as it is a reasonably untraveled area. It took a few moments for them to show their sides instead of their rumps, so this made an attractive shot about thirty feet away. Sadly, I didn't see them upon my approach, but now I'm paying more attention.
The American Crow was patrolling in search of trouble, while the Tufted Titmouse, Carolina Wren, Northern Flicker, Eastern Bluebird, American Goldfinch, and Dark-eyed Juncos made their presence known.
Winter has been moving in with summery twists and turns, rain, and good surprises if one keeps alert.
Male Song Sparrow
111719
0756-0851/partly cloudy/NNW-6/56-58% RH/29.89-29.88 Hg and steady
Pied-billed Grebes, Ruddy Ducks, and the normal gulls increased in numbers this morning, as did Dark-eyed Juncos and this beautiful singing male Song Sparrow.
These were the days of pre-cold snap and rain
Monday, January 21, 2019
Birds of Boomer For December 2018
Red-shouldered Hawk
Juvenile Herring Gulls
Male Hooded Merganser
Juvenile Herring Gull (Rear)
Red-shouldered Hawk
Common Merganser
Glaucous Gull ?
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Carolina Chickadee
Green-winged Teal
Bewick's Wren
Common Merganser
Juvenile Herring Gulls
Common Merganser
12-05 - 12-16-18
Most of December was a very mild month, with very few birds of interest at Boomer Lake.
We had more Herring Gulls than usual, one or two in a couple of hundred Ring-billed Gulls was normal, but we have seen double, sometimes triple those numbers this winter.
The Lesser Black-backed Gull has visited several times, along with a Glaucous Gull that came in once or twice.
Common Mergansers were all over the state more than usual, more than the normal Red-breasted Merganser.
This irruptive year also brought Purple Finches, as well as Red-breasted Nuthatches to mostly the northwest corner of Boomer Lake several times.
Hungry hawks have also been here, but not nearly the numbers that we saw last year--yet. Winter has only been here for a month.
Ducks were very rare in December, too, but there will be a few changes with occasional cooler mornings in January.