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New Years Day,

With winds swirling outside and in my head wearily went out birding.

First birds of the year,

1.House Sparrow(eight seen while waiting for the bus)
2.American Crows(25 gathered in a back lane for some reason)
3.Rock Pigeon

Specifically went downtown in my city to twitch White-throated Sparrows
which I found.Had to wade through a gauntlet of panhandlers though!

4.White-throated Sparrows(four seen)

Then went to twitch another rarity a Red-bellied Woodpecker.

No luck at the Witches Hut,but did get a nice bird for Manitoba!

5.White-winged Crossbill

Also here were,

6.House Finch
7.White-breasted Nuthatch
8.Black-capped Chickadee
9.Downy Woodpecker
10.Hairy Woodpecker
11.Common Redpoll

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Again chased the above mentioned bird.Strike two but what lovely weather
0'c, on Thursday 7'c,short and t-shirt weather,when it should be in the-20s!.Did get a;

12.Brown Creeper
13.Mallard(six in some open water)

Where the Red-bellied Woodpecker has been seen regularly near many feeders.

Forgot about my beast list,

1.Eastern Grey Squirrel
2.Red Squirrel

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Went out to this area specifically to find winter finches.In two days and lots of walking only seen Black-capped Chickadees and a few
14.Common Ravens
At a certain area I call the berry patch very regular were
15.Black-billed Magpies
16Sharp-tailed Grouse-1
Checked out the few feeders out in the area including my brothers and found
17.Blue Jay

Lots of Common Repolls were the only finches found and only at my brothers
feeders.Could not turn one into a Hoary!Other birds here were nuthatches and
a lone Downy Woodpecker.

Grand Beach,Manitoba

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A very elusive species found last Monday!Lucky in that they are feeding in a area I frequent!
18.Gray Partridge

3.White-tailed Deer
4.Eastern Cottontail Rabbit

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Time to catch up on my meager list!Should start piling up now that spring has arrived!

19.Pine Siskin/Jan 12
20.Dark-eyed Junco/Jan 12
21.Northern Shrike/Jan.16(good find in the winter here!)
22.Great Horned Owl/Jan.22
23.Hoary Redpoll/March 3
24.Merlin/March 4
25.Canada Goose!first migrant!March 10

5.Snowshoe Hare
6.Raccoon
http://youtu.be/5ysCAHnKhhM
7.Red Fox

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Birded the Red River were consistently every spring the first open water can be had.

Saturday,March 17

26.Bald Eagle
27.American Robin
28.Hooded Merganser
29.Redhead
30.Ring-necked Duck

31.European Starling(forgot about this common bird seen since January)

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Sunday,March 18

Went again to the Red river ,wanted to bird the area before the ice disperses and the waterfowl are more widespread.

32.Common Merganser
33.Common Goldoneye

Both nice finds in the city!Lucky to see in spring and fall migration here!

34.Bufflehead
35.Common Grackle

Saw gulls and scaups but too far away to identify.

36.Ring-billed Gull,saw today.

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Walk through my local patch turned up,

37.American Kestrel
38.Herring Gull
39.Killdeer

Last Saturday got my first butterfly,

1.Green Comma

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40.Canvasback
41.Northern Harrier
42.Red-tailed Hawk
43.American Tree Sparrow
44.Fox Sparrow
45.Mourning Dove
46.Song Sparrow
47.Red-winged Blackbird
48.Western Meadowlark
49.Cooper`s Hawk
50.Sandhill Crane
51.Northern Flicker
52.Rusty Blackbird!
53.Winter Wren
54.Eastern Phoebe

8.Muskrat
9.Woodchuck

2.Mourning Cloak
3.Milberts Tortoiseshell

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55.Wilson's Snipe
56.Hermit's Thrush
57Lincoln's Sparrow
58.Pied-billed Grebe
59.Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
60.Greater Yellowlegs
61.Green-winged Teal
62.Greater Scaup
63.Lesser Scaup

4.Compton's Tortoiseshell
5.Eastern Comma?