Wild Bird Center Saturday Bird Walks
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Every Saturday Morning

  - From 7:30 a.m. (promptly) to 10 am -     

 

Every Saturday year-round. No reservations required.  Every last Saturday of the month we travel further afield than normal and return a little later.  Bird Walk locations are determined on the morning of the walk.All ages and birding abilities are welcome!

 

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  --Thanks, Steve   

 

July 21, 2012    Sunny and warm.  80°F.  18 participants.

binoculars and child  I was away in Minnesota for today's bird walk. Thanks ever so much to Bill Eeds for leading this great walk.


Walden & Sawhill Ponds  
 

Jul 21, 2012
Traveling: 1 miles
180 Minutes

   

30 Canada Goose
15 Mallard, 8 ducklings
6 Double-crested Cormorant
2 American White Pelican
7 Great Blue Heron
1 Green Heron
1 Black-crowned Night-Heron
3 Osprey, 2 young on nest
1 Bald Eagle
8 Killdeer
1 Ring-billed Gull
12 Rock Pigeon
4 Eurasian Collared-Dove
20 Mourning Dove
1 Broad-tailed Hummingbird
1 Belted Kingfisher
1 Northern Flicker
8 Western Wood-Pewee, 2 young being fed at nest
20 Eastern Kingbird
2 Warbling Vireo
1 Blue Jay
2 American Crow
3 Common Raven
4 Northern Rough-winged Swallow
6 Violet-green Swallow
1 Bank Swallow
3 Barn Swallow
2 Black-capped Chickadee
2 White-breasted Nuthatch
2 Rock Wren
12 House Wren
8 American Robin
4 European Starling
3 Cedar Waxwing
4 Yellow Warbler
3 Common Yellowthroat
2 Song Sparrow
4 Red-winged Blackbird
1 Western Meadowlark
6 Common Grackle
6 Brown-headed Cowbird
5 House Finch
8 American Goldfinch
3 House Sparrow  

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Total species seen - 44


Note: Species in bold are birds that were special on the walk for
reasons like a great view, out-of-season, great numbers, or rarity.

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