Monday, December 26, 2011

Monday after Christmas

 

Monday after Christmas

Decided to use this holiday day to add a life-bird to my list.  A White-winged Scoter has been hanging out on a Resaca in San Benito for several weeks, but I haven’t got to it yet.  An hour and a half to get there.  Hundreds of ducks to sort through.  Three hours looking.  No Scoter.  Drove home.  A six hour effort altogether.  Arrived home to learn that the San Benito White-winged Scoter was found dead this morning…

 

Oops.  Oh well.  It was a nice drive through the country.  I got lots of other birds including Snow Geese, Greater White-fronted Geese, Black-bellied Whistling Ducks, Wood Ducks, Canvasbacks, Anhingas, White-tailed Kites, a Red-shouldered Hawk, a Caspian Tern, a Ringed Kingfisher, and Tropical Kingbirds.

 

Not a bad day.

 

Here is an American Kestrel and a White-tailed Kite:

 

 

 

 

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