Autumn, Fall, etc

Cooper’s Hawk Accipiter cooperii

Find the Winter Wren Troglodytes hiemalis

Common Raven Corvus corax

Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina

Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina

Eastern Grey Squirrel Sciurus carolinensis

Super Harvest Moon in partial eclipse

NDG, Sept 22, 2024

-Plenty of Chipping Sparrows around, in a confusing mix of plumages.

-A Winter Wren tisked several times from dense brush, but would not show itself.

-I watched a squadron of Northern Flickers fly across a clearing. Just as the last one was about to reach the relative safety of a row of trees, a Cooper’s Hawk collided with it in a dramatic mid-air puff of feathers. The flicker gave a long call as the pair fell into the grass in a spinning tangle, then went silent. The Cooper’s Hawk fed for a good long while, while the other Northern Flickers called angrily from the trees.

-Decent numbers of Dark-eyed Juncos and White-throated Sparrows moving through the scrubby edges.

-No warblers or kinglets, bummer.

-Still quite buggy.

-18 species in 90 minutes.