Samantha and I joined 6 other intrepid birders to brave the blue skies and mild temperatures and bird Millwood Lake Saturday morning. We started Beard’s Bluff Recreational Area, then moved to the state park to search for the Rock Wren that Charles Mills had discovered (found it), then to Beard’s Lake for a mosquito survey, and finally a wrap up back at Beard’s Bluff. We didn’t cover a lot of ground but we had a full day of lovely weather and my pedometer read 19,000 steps by the end of the day.
Here are some images from the day or go here for my recent images.
Species seen or heard:
- American Avocet
- American Coot
- American Crow
- American Pipit
- American White Pelican
- American Wigeon
- Bald Eagle
- Belted Kingfisher
- Black Vulture
- Blue Jay
- Brown-headed Nuthatch
- Canada Goose
- Carolina Chickadee
- Carolina Wren
- Chipping Sparrow
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Eastern Bluebird
- Eastern Phoebe
- Fish Crow
- Forster’s Tern
- Franklin’s Gull
- Gadwall
- Great Blue Heron
- Great Egret
- Greater Scaup
- Horned Grebe
- Killdeer
- Mourning Dove
- Northern Flicker
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow
- Osprey
- Pied-billed Grebe
- Pine Warbler
- Red-bellied Woodpecker
- Redhead
- Red-shouldered Hawk
- Ring-billed Gull
- Rock Pigeon
- Rock Wren
- Ruddy Duck
- Tufted Titmouse
- Turkey Vulture
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- White-crowned Sparrow
- White-throated Sparrow
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
