Mud and Turkeys

Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo

Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo

Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo

American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos
with Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis

Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis

Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
(banded)

American Tree Sparrow Spizella arborea

Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia

Eastern Towhee Pipilo erythrophthalmus

Eastern Towhee Pipilo erythrophthalmus

Winter Wren Troglodytes hiemalis

Canada Goose Branta canadensis

Wilson’s Snipe Gallinago delicata

Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor

Eastern Cottontail Sylvilagus floridanus

Eastern Comma Polygonia comma

Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa

Artificial owl nest

A man out standing in his field

Technoparc, April 10, 2023

  Went for a four-hour jaunt around the Technoparc yesterday, and turned up 46-ish species. Spring was in the air for sure! No warblers yet, but evidence of loads of movement. It was warm, sunny, and muddy. The butterflies and bees have arrived.

  Several Red-tailed Hawks were encountered, including a banded bird by the airport, and an individual that looked like it was nosing around a Groundhog hole at Monarch Field.

  Three Wild Turkeys were loitering around a feeder, and it was spectacular to get close looks at a displaying male ('freaky alien Cassowary'). Overhead, a male Northern Harrier was doing impressive aerobatic displays (courtship?).

  An Eastern Towhee was discovered behind a pile of logs and dirt near the golf course. It was tossing leaves around in the undergrowth, alongside several Fox Sparrows doing the same, but was skulky and silent. It was a non-showy Towhee.

  I think I got a sunburn.