My birding day started out with the first bird at my feeders this morning being a
PINE SISKIN - (also visited yesterday)
This motivated me to make a quick visit to some of my favorite Licking Co. places, with the following results:
T. J. Evans Park:
Canada geese - many
mallards - maybe 20
bufflehead - a single male
ring-billed gulls - maybe 20
bald eagle - adult, probably female, based on size
(No American coots today, although they have been reliable there all month.)
a private gravel pit, viewable from a friend's farm, near St. Louisville:
COMMON LOON - one - a new county bird for me
Canada geese - 116 (I did a count, because there is occasionally a snow goose among the Canadas, and I didn't want to miss it. No luck.)
on the same friend's farm:
horned larks - about 15-20
Then on to Dawes Arboretum:
the Dutch Fork Wetlands had MANY song sparrows, but no waterfowl.
Along Licking Trail Rd. -
red-tailed hawk
a flock of about 12-15 common grackles
a mixed flock of 8 blackbirds, having some red-winged blackbirds - I couldn't be sure of all the others.
Dawes - main complex, including auto tour:
white-breasted nuthatch
eastern bluebirds
American robins - in the hundreds, if not thousands
northern mockingbird
a flock of 50-70 European starlings
many American crows
At the feeders:
three woodpecker species:
downy
red-bellied
northern flicker
four from the sparrow family:
eastern towhee
white-throated sparrow
white-crowned sparrow (including one first winter)
dark-eyed junco
misc.:
northern cardinal
blue jay
house finch
American goldfinch
house sparrows
Returning through downtown Newark:
rock pigeons
All in all, a good birding morning, chilly with occasional spitting snow, but not particularly windy.
Margaret Bowman
Licking Co., OH
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