Photo: Eastern Bluebird by John Larson
Hello everyone,
It’s a good winter birding day when we have more bird species than birders, so today was a good day! Rocky the Raccoon was asleep in his usual tree cavity. See Marisa’s photo. A Brown Creeper was found in the soccer field area which was a nice surprise.
At the end of our walk, in the west parking lot of the Museum, we came upon another group of birders who pointed out the 5 Common Redpolls that were feeding on seeds that had fallen to the ground. See Mike’s photo.
BIRDERS: Mike, Marian, Leslie, Yesenia, Rachel, Jennie, Marisa
TIME: 8:00am to 9:50am
WEATHER: Sunny, 14 degrees, a little breezy
Compiler: Mike
Photographers: Marisa (raccoon) and Mike (Redpolls)
Species
Count
Canada Goose
1
Ring-billed Gull
2
Downy Woodpecker
3
American Crow
4
Black-capped Chickadee
7
White-breasted Nuthatch
3
Brown Creeper
1
European Starling
1
House Sparrow
5
Common Redpoll
5
Dark-eyed Junco
7
Northern Cardinal
1
If you’d like more information about a bird, check out the All About Birds ID guide:
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/
Corrections, additions and comments are welcome.
Recordings are not used to attract birds.
The Walks are free and open to one and all. They are held year-round. Newcomers are warmly welcomed.
Saturday morning walks: Start at 8:00 a.m. and cover a distance of two miles. Birders walk from the meeting spot counterclockwise onto Wooded Island. Exiting Wooded Island at the south end, the birders walk along the soccer field and enter the south end of Bobolink Meadow. The Meadow’s path leads to the Music Bridge. After crossing the Music Bridge birders walk through the parking lot and around the Columbia Basin (North Lagoon) and return to our meeting spot. In late fall, winter and early spring, the birders check for birds on the lakefront at the Outer Harbor near LaRabida Hospital and the Inner Harbor after the Wooded Island walk.
Meeting Spot: Birders meet on the west shore of the Columbia Basin (North Lagoon). Park on Stony Island Avenue near 59th Street, walk east across the parkland area, then cross Cornell Drive to reach the spot.
Good birding everyone,
Jennie