Wednesday, February 17, 2016

mid-February

With a great scarcity of
birds at my backyard feeders I went to Bear Creek Park for Great Backyard Bird Count last weekend.  The lakes remain frozen, the creek yielded a few Mallards and a male Common Goldeneye floating downstream.  The remaining 16 species were residents of the winter dormant forest.  My contribution to Citizen Science.
      The Oregon Junco I saw on Saturday was hiding in a bush, so this is a photo I took 2 years ago.

Going out the next day I found a flock of American Tree Sparrows at Cherry Creek Park.  The camera decided not to focus on anything, so this is a not-focused picture. Of course the lake is still 98%  frozen, however some winter ducks managed to find a sliver of open water.  Common Mergansers, Common Goldeneyes,  a distant Scaup, and Hooded Mergansers were sharing water space with Ring-billed Gulls.  5 Bald Eagles were standing on the ice keeping watch.  They were even more distant than this Eagle I photographed a few weeks ago.

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