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Showing posts with label Double-crested Cormorants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Double-crested Cormorants. Show all posts

Sunday, December 11, 2016

Summer Relinquishes to Fall's Finer Showings

Eastern Bluebird
Double-crested Cormorants
Killdeer
Juvenile Red-shouldered Hawk
Female Downy Woodpecker



Great Horned Owl

Adult Red-shouldered Hawk


Great Blue Heron Holding Berries



Great Blue Heron Releasing Berries



Juvenile Black-crowned Night-Heron

Redheads


American Goldfinch


11-20 through12-02-16
El Nino still holds on fast to many things, even though its time should be up.  Global warming 
 has taken on a stronger foothold, so birds that should have been on their way to more southern climes are still with us in mid-December, like the Great Egret, juvenile Black-crowned Night-Heron, and even a vagrant Brown Pelican from the briny waters.  I did not see the pelican yesterday, but my sources are very trustworthy, so I know that it was on Boomer Lake. 

Rumor has it that winter will be warm and wet for the Great Plains, but the northern areas will be even colder and snowier.  Good fortune to all, and keep warm. 



Sunday, November 9, 2014

The North Meets the South, Long May They Fly


                                                             Great Blue Heron in Flight


                                                           Great Blue Heron Fishing


                                               American Goldfinch, Non-Breeding Plumage


                                                                     Pine Siskin


                                                             Northern Mockingbird


                                              American Goldfinch, Non-Breeding Plumage


                                                                   American Crow


                                                                Ring-billed Gull


                                                            Double-crested Cormorants


                                                               Great Blue Heron

0745-0930/46-51 degrees F/Partly Cloudy/Light and Variable Winds

Look what advanced from the northern states--hordes of American Goldfinches, the Pine Siskin,
more Double-crested Cormorants, and the ducks are inbound, as we speak.  There has even been a lone Broad-billed Hummingbird around Stillwater, which is very rare for any hummingbird during this time of year.  Watch and wait.  See what you might discover...