Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Winter Line-up

In the heart of winter here on West Campus and the same birds have been teeing up for spotting every day.  Diversity is not amazing but seems to at least be steady.  Memories may be faulty but it seems to me that in the past our coldest, shortest days would leave us with a maximum of 12 species, even forging through the cold looking for life. 

With Sue in New Haven, I have not been my motivated self going out to poke around in the nooks and crannies of campus.  The birds have been cooperating though and coming to us.  We are certainly lucky to have our courtyard with huge picture windows for viewing the feeders and fly by's.  Here are the birds that we have been seeing every week or at least about 15 of them every week.

Winter Birds:
Black-capped Chickadee- at the feeder every day
House Finch- at the feeder every day
Mourning Dove- at the feeder, almost every day
American Goldfinch- at the feeder every day
Northern Cardinal- at the feeder a couple times a week
Song Sparrow- at the feeder a couple times a week
White-throated Sparrow- at the feeder a couple times a week
Blue Jay- seen off and on at the feeder
Downy Woodpecker (finally)- recently seen near the feeder once a week
Sharp-shinned Hawk- at the feeder once a week
Dark-eyed Junco- occasionally at the feeder
Rock Pigeon- on campus daily
Herring Gull- on campus daily
Ring-billed Gull- on campus daily
European Starling- on campus daily
American Crow- on campus daily
Canada Goose- on campus a couple times a week
American Robin- on campus a coupe times a week (more lately)
Turkey Vulture- flying over campus once a week
Red-tailed Hawk- flying over campus once a week

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