Howdy all,
The last two days have finally brought in a little cool weather. Kind of nice
to see, somewhat. This last front pushed out a lot of Yellow-rumps and brought
in very few. I am kind of bummed. Yesterday was quite windy but today was a
very nice day. I wish we could have a few more days like today.
Although not rare birds were caught, we did have a few very late birds. Today
we caught a Wood Thrush and a Gray-cheeked Thrush! Odd to get a GCTH this time
of year, most are of the Bicknell's background at this time. This bird WAS a
GCTH however. Pretty cool!
We also caught our second Purple Finch of the season as well.
Totals for 11/5:
Brown Creeper 1
Slate-colored Junco 2
Hermit Thrush 1
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Cardinal 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 2
TOTAL------------------- 8 total??
Totals for the 11/6:
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 2
Brown Creeper 1
Winter Wren 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 18
Pine Warbler 1
Field Sparrow 5
Swamp Sparrow 1
White-throated Sparrow 6
Song Sparrow 23
Fox Sparrow 1 second of the season
Slate-colored Junco 2
Northern Cardinal 1
American Goldfinch 28
Purple Finch 1 second of the season
Hermit Thrush 1
Wood Thrush 1 getting quite late!!!
Gray-cheeked Thrush 1 '' ditto ''
TOTAL --------------------------- 95
No yellow-rumps on the 5th and only 18 today. I sure wish those numbers would
go up!
It is amazing how many Song Sparrows are around this year at the station!
Cheers,
Jethro
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