Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Biding around home -- Canada Goose Goslings

Today has been very fine for birding.  First interesting bird of the day was a Great Blue Heron fishing in a small stream (draft) near my house.  We got a good look (maybe about 5 minutes long), and than the heron flew away upstream.  2nd interesting bird of the day was a Red-tailed Hawk perched with some birds (grackles maybe) on a post, off a road.  3rd neat bird/encounter was a Fish Crow on a wire (I assume it was a Fish Crow, not an American Crow, because according to Sibley Fish Crows perch on wires, but American crows rarely do), but I hardly know the viewable differences between the 2.  Once the crow got off the wire, a grackle started dive-bombing it!  Then on the side of a road, where a small pond is located, there were 5 Domestic Muscovy Ducks, a Domestic Mallard, and 2 Canada Geese parents with 2 goslings!  The goslings were getting pretty big.  Unfortunately no photos today.

I'm going to Chincoteague Virginia for a week, leaving tomorrow, so I'll be off of blogging for a while.

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