torrent
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So I've been going to this marsh for a couple months now, and it's turned out to be quite a good birding spot with some good variety. Being my day off today I decided what better way to spend the morning than to go birding, right? It turned out to be a fairly fruitful day. Here's a list of the birds that were around:
- american white pelican
- wood duck: 5 juveniles, rare for lethbridge
- mallards: of course
- osprey: another rarity for the area
- ring-necked pheasent
- killdeer
- lesser yellowlegs: 5
- solitary sandpiper
- spotted sandpiper
- mourning dove
- belted kingfisher
- downy woodpecker
- flicker
- western wood-pewee
- least flycatcher
- western kingbird
- eastern kingbird
- bank swallow
- bc chickadee
- red-breasted nuthatch
- house wren
- robin
- catbird
- cedar waxwing
- yellow warbler
- chipping sparrow
- clay-colored sparrow
- brewer's sparrow
- lark sparrow
- song sparrow
- red-winged blackbird
- brewer's blackbird
- baltimore oriole: female
- american goldfinch
It actually turned out to be quite a fruitful day. Hoping I'll get some migrating shorbirds through here pretty soon. I'm still hoping to find a Rail wandering through the reeds, so far I've been able to find a Sora though.
What's amazed me is the lack of raptors in this particular area, so far the only one is the Orprey and he was high overhead. You'd think that with all the small birds hanging around there'd at least be an accipiter hanging out close by. Maybe there are better places to hunt. No sign of owls yet either. Maybe it's just a safe-haven, a fledgling nursery if you will.
- american white pelican
- wood duck: 5 juveniles, rare for lethbridge
- mallards: of course
- osprey: another rarity for the area
- ring-necked pheasent
- killdeer
- lesser yellowlegs: 5
- solitary sandpiper
- spotted sandpiper
- mourning dove
- belted kingfisher
- downy woodpecker
- flicker
- western wood-pewee
- least flycatcher
- western kingbird
- eastern kingbird
- bank swallow
- bc chickadee
- red-breasted nuthatch
- house wren
- robin
- catbird
- cedar waxwing
- yellow warbler
- chipping sparrow
- clay-colored sparrow
- brewer's sparrow
- lark sparrow
- song sparrow
- red-winged blackbird
- brewer's blackbird
- baltimore oriole: female
- american goldfinch
It actually turned out to be quite a fruitful day. Hoping I'll get some migrating shorbirds through here pretty soon. I'm still hoping to find a Rail wandering through the reeds, so far I've been able to find a Sora though.
What's amazed me is the lack of raptors in this particular area, so far the only one is the Orprey and he was high overhead. You'd think that with all the small birds hanging around there'd at least be an accipiter hanging out close by. Maybe there are better places to hunt. No sign of owls yet either. Maybe it's just a safe-haven, a fledgling nursery if you will.