Highlights of a long walk in the vicinity of my house in Lincoln included
Red-Headed Woodpecker at two separate locations, Wood Ducks and Hooded
Mergansers on a wooded pond (2 male Hoodies chasing circles around a
female), Brown Creeper, Red-Breasted Nuthatch (in my yard-one alive and one,
sadly, found dead), Winter Wren, a thriving Bluebird population with nary a
box in sight, a singing brown Purple Finch, and many noisy Flickers,
Phoebes, and Towhees. Complete list at end.
The resident Barred Owl couple put on a display for us last evening, at
9:00, perching in the backyard in silhouette against the moonlit sky and
hooting and caterwauling in a show that captivated even my husband. There
is an unmatched female who seems to be trying to usurp the attentions of the
mated male, so we have a lot of theatrics, most of it happening on the
neighbor's property.
Black Vulture - 4
Turkey Vulture - 6
Canada Goose - 8
Wood Duck - 2 pairs
Hooded Merganser - 3 (2M, 1F)
Cooper's Hawk
Red-Shouldered Hawk - 2
Red-Tailed Hawk - 1 + 2
Killdeer - 2
Mourning Dove - 6
Barred Owl - 1 (heard)
Belted Kingfisher - 1
Red-Headed Woodpecker - 1+1
Red-Bellied Woodpecker - 10
Downy Woodpecker - 3
Hairy Woodpecker - 2
No. Flicker - 15
Pileated Woodpecker - 1
(Y-B Sapsucker was a no-show)
Phoebe - 14
Blue Jay - 18
Am. Crow - 15
Fish Crow - 6
Car. Chickadee - 6
Tufted Titmouse - 8
Brown Creeper - 1
Red-Breasted Nuthatch - 1 + 1 dead (of 3 hanging around all winter)
White-Breasted Nuthatch - 6
Carolina Wren - 15
Winter Wren - 1
Ea. Bluebird - 20+
Am. Robin - 15
No. Mockingbird - 12
Eur. Starling - 10
Cedar Waxwing - 10
Yellow-Rumped Warbler - 1
R-S Towhee - 12+
Field Sparrow - 12
Song Sparrow - 30
White-Throated Sparrow - 6 (nothing like last winter's numbers)
D-E Junco - 12
No. Cardinal - 15
Red-Winged Blackbird - 10
Com. Grackle - 20
Brown-Headed Cowbird - 8
Purple Finch (brown, singing) - 1
House Finch - 1
Am. Goldfinch - 6
47 species is a record for my neighborhood walk in March.
