December 18, 2019, GVSU arboretum, Allendale campus:
male & female Cardinals, House Finches, Juncos, Bluejays, Titmice, a male Red-bellied Woodpecker, White-breasted Nuthatch, Mourning Dove; Fox and Black Squirrels.
November 4, 2019, GVSU arboretum, Allendale campus:
1st junco of the season.
September 2019:
In late August at our front feeders, I saw a bald adolescent cardinal, then read the Bald-headed Birds post on Feederwatch: they've "dropped their head feathers simultaneously during molting, resulting in individuals being nearly bald for about a week."
In the backyard, I saw a black and white juvenile with a huge head and eyes but no crest (like juvenile titmice but much larger). Finally, its mom perched nearby - a female Cedar Waxwing, so I knew what the juvenile was.
While driving home from work, I saw a single Cattle Egret for a couple of days, then a whole flock of them on the pond just west of 4463 Leonard St NW (West Michigan Academy of Environmental Science). The start of fall migration! On 9/5 I saw a Great Blue Heron and a Great Egret.
3/12, traveling in car, Georgetown township:
Sandhill crane flying!
Home, walking:
robin, cardinal, titmice, European starlings.
3/16, home:
Turkey vultures
4/6, home a.m., Blandford 5:40-6:40 p.m.
Mourning doves, bluejays, goldfinches, house finches, cardinals, red-bellied woodpecker, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpeckers, chickadees, white- and red-breasted nuthatches, titmice, robins, European starlings, red-winged blackbirds, crows, turkey vultures, Canada geese, herring gulls, house sparrows, red-tailed hawks, phoebes (!). Also - spring peepers & frogs chuckling.
Kalamazoo: Killdeer
On the way to work this past week: wild turkeys, Sandhill cranes
male & female Cardinals, House Finches, Juncos, Bluejays, Titmice, a male Red-bellied Woodpecker, White-breasted Nuthatch, Mourning Dove; Fox and Black Squirrels.
November 4, 2019, GVSU arboretum, Allendale campus:
1st junco of the season.
September 2019:
In late August at our front feeders, I saw a bald adolescent cardinal, then read the Bald-headed Birds post on Feederwatch: they've "dropped their head feathers simultaneously during molting, resulting in individuals being nearly bald for about a week."
In the backyard, I saw a black and white juvenile with a huge head and eyes but no crest (like juvenile titmice but much larger). Finally, its mom perched nearby - a female Cedar Waxwing, so I knew what the juvenile was.
While driving home from work, I saw a single Cattle Egret for a couple of days, then a whole flock of them on the pond just west of 4463 Leonard St NW (West Michigan Academy of Environmental Science). The start of fall migration! On 9/5 I saw a Great Blue Heron and a Great Egret.
3/12, traveling in car, Georgetown township:
Sandhill crane flying!
Home, walking:
robin, cardinal, titmice, European starlings.
3/16, home:
Turkey vultures
4/6, home a.m., Blandford 5:40-6:40 p.m.
Mourning doves, bluejays, goldfinches, house finches, cardinals, red-bellied woodpecker, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpeckers, chickadees, white- and red-breasted nuthatches, titmice, robins, European starlings, red-winged blackbirds, crows, turkey vultures, Canada geese, herring gulls, house sparrows, red-tailed hawks, phoebes (!). Also - spring peepers & frogs chuckling.
Kalamazoo: Killdeer
On the way to work this past week: wild turkeys, Sandhill cranes
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