Thanks to Su Snyder for creating this Snowy Day Birding
Contest.Â


Thanks to Su Snyder for creating this Snowy Day Birding
Contest.  The activity brightened a day
filled with dire newscasts of bad weather from the Midwest all the way to
Alaska.  I participated last year also,
but I never turned in my results.  So,
here goes:
 
9am:  10 Dark-eyed
Junco, 8 Housefinch, 1 White-throated Sparrow, 4 House Sparrow, 
2 Cardinals (pair), 3 Chickadees.  10am:  1 American Tree
Sparrow.  11 am:  all resting in Mock Orange’s tightly laced
branches.  3 pm:  4 Mourning Doves, 1 Blue Jay, 2 Hairy
Woodpeckers (pair), 1 Downy Woodpecker (female).  5pm:  most resting,
digesting and fluffed out.  Expected to
see but did not:  Goldfinch,
White-breasted Nuthatch, Canada Geese, neighbor’s cat.   Eleven species.   My loudest bird of the day was a National Guard helicopter.  My best bird was the Hairy, now that I can
finally ID them from the Downy without having to have both present
simultaneously.  
 
Had fun and stayed warm,Kathy Weideman-Heipel


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