Yes, Nice Harrier pictures !!
Preston Forsythe, Browder, KY
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On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 6:52 PM, Stephen Tyson<kytysons9152@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We counted 53 species, here, which is three short of our best-ever for this
late October weekend. Yesterday started cloudy but cleared later; it turned
out lovely, though windy, but the birds were active anyway. Today was rainy or
misty, and windy throughout, which brought a lot of leaves down and gave a
distinct autumn feel, with less bird activity.I counted our first-of-season
Purple Finch, yesterday morning, a female that I heard calling in the pond
thicket. I also spotted a pair of first-of-year Vesper Sparrows, yesterday. I
found them in the same field-edge cherry tree where I photographed one last
November 13. We’re still seeing Yellow-rumped and Palm Warblers but Sparrows
were the real story with nine species counted by noon, yesterday. Today, I
counted at least seven Swamps, eight Savannahs, five Songs, five White-crowneds
and three Juncos. Juncos have been a relative rarity here in recent years.
The only other mentionable were eleven Red-tailed Hawks, today. I counted six
in one scope-sweep of the soybean stubble, east of the house. I linked below
to today’s eBird list with a photo of four of them congregated in the open
soybean stubble, this afternoon (about 1.3 miles out). There was a fifth just
out of frame to the left. There are still many Harriers, which are always in
view but the Red-tails outnumbered them, today. The eBird list also has some
of Debby’s Harrier photos, taken from a window, this morning.
https://ebird.org/checklist/S121593493
Stephen (Steve) Tyson, Schochoh, Logan Co., KY
Species Name:Northern BobwhiteRock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)
Mourning Dove
Killdeer
Great Blue Heron
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Northern Harrier
Cooper's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Great Horned Owl
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
American Kestrel
Blue Jay
American Crow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Golden-crowned Kinglet
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
European Starling
Brown Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
Cedar Waxwing
House Sparrow
House Finch
Purple Finch (FOS)
American Goldfinch
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
White-crowned SparrowWhite-throated Sparrow Vesper Sparrow (FOY)
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Eastern Towhee
Eastern Meadowlark
Red-winged Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Common Grackle
Palm Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Northern Cardinal
