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Here is a female American Robin, with a worm for here nearby nestlings. I took this photo this morning, in the backyard of the shop. She landed on the fence for a second, and then took off with her babies breakfast.

Here is a female American Robin, with a worm for here nearby nestlings. I took this photo this morning, in the backyard of the shop. She landed on the fence for a second, and then took off with her babies breakfast.

I took this photo about 30 minutes ago, it's a beautiful male Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula). He has some neighbor's bird food in his bill, I snapped this photo right before he took off from the fence here in the backyard of the shop.

Here is a cute little pair of House Finches (Carpodacus mexicanus). They live behind the shop. The male has a chipped upper mandible, in other words, his beak is broken on the tip. :-( They came quite close! :-)

Yeah!!!! I've gotten THREE lifers in the past THREE days!!! I'm soooo happy, so now I have 125 birds on my lifelist! Here they are:

Orange-crowned Warbler - 3+
Savannah Sparrow - 1
Say's Phoebe - 2

The photo is of the Say's Phoebe

This last week/end I have identified 11 lifers! Here they are, hopefully in taxonomic order. ;-)

Pied-billed Grebe
Scaup spp.
Cooper's Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Phoebe
Purple Martin
Brown Creeper
Chipping Sparrow
Great-tailed Grackle

Plus I added Swainson's thrush, and I need to confirm Swamp Sparrow and Brewer's Blackbird. Currently my lifelist is: 117!!

Yesterday, and the day before that, I got TWO LIFERS!!!! On the 17th, while at Fontenelle Forest, I got Ring-necked Duck. :-D Yesterday, while geocaching, I got American Coot. I'm very very very happy.

That makes 106!!

On Saturday the 3rd, Dad and I went to Pressey WMA from 7:30 am to 9:15.  Here is a list of species we identified.

Early this morning (like around 7:30), I saw the first Canada Geese of the year!! Seven of them. They were flying south. Wait....!

Hello,

Here are my results from the 2007 Great Backyard Bird Count

Yeah! It's the 1st day of the Great Backyard Bird Count!!! It's supposed to be warmer today, like up to 38 degrees. Yeah!!! I haven't seen many birds yet. Here's what I've seen already:

Rock Dove - 28
Red-tailed Hawk - 1
European Starling - 8

Not looking very good, hopefully tomorrow and Sunday I can go out looking for the Bald Eagle. :-)I'll go out right now to look for House Sparrows.

Good luck with your counting!

Tim

Hello everybody! Welcome to my LJ!

I plan to use this journal to post birding notes, bird photos, and birding experiences I've taken/had while birding. :-) Originally my user name was the_sandpiper, but due to some age verification problems, I had to change it to the_grosbeak. I plan to change back to the_sandpiper, in about a month or so.

Thanks!