Eastern Bluebird In A Sycamore Tree At Sunset
There Were Well Over 5000 Snow Geese On The Salt Side of Shearness And Every Once In A While An Eagle Would Spook Them...Awesome!
Snow Geese In The Cornfields Adjacent To Whitehall Neck Road
Photo Study Of Some Birds Seen On The CBC At Bombay Hook NWR, December 18, 2011
Andy
Ednie and Joel Citron coordinated this year's Christmas Bird Count At Bombay
Hook NWR in Smyrna, Delaware. Armas Hill lead our
count
team comprised of Don Williams, his nephew Andrew Bogush, Drs. Jessica Tanis and Jeffrey
Caplan and yours truly. We were assigned
Shearness. The weather was brisk (37 °F) but the skies were clear most of the
day. In any event, we saw lots of birds and guess what...I
was
even allowed to take some photos:
Eastern
Bluebird In A Sycamore Tree At Sunset
There
Were Well Over 5000 Snow Geese On The Salt Side of Shearness And Every Once In A While An Eagle
Would Spook Them...Awesome!
Snow
Geese In The Cornfields Adjacent To Whitehall Neck Road
An
American
Coot Showing Off His Lobed Foot
Great
Blue Heron Flies
Red-tailed
Hawk Flies
A
Northern
Harrier Soars By While We Were Standing
On Top Of The Shearness Observation Tower
A
Red Fox Watches Us As We Leave Bombay Hook NWR
Our CBC
Team
Saw 60 Species Today:
|
Species |
Today's Count |
Species |
Today's Count |
Species |
Today's Count |
| Snow Goose |
> 5,000 |
Red-tailed Hawk |
4 |
Marsh Wren |
1 |
| Canada Geese |
> 2,000 |
American Coot |
330 |
Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
2 |
| Cackling Goose |
1 |
American Avocet |
20 (Raymond's) |
Eastern Bluebird |
5 |
| Mute Swan |
1 |
Greater Yellowlegs |
4 (Raymond's) |
Northern Mockingbird |
4 |
| Tundra Swan |
35 |
Dunlin |
60 |
Brown Thrasher |
1 |
| Gadwall |
20 |
Common Snipe |
3 |
American Pipit |
2 |
| American Black Duck |
68 |
Herring Gull |
50 |
Field Sparrow |
1 |
| Mallard |
50 |
Ring-billed Gull |
30 |
Savannah Sparrow |
35 |
| Northern Shoveler |
60 |
Great Black-backed Gull |
1 |
Fox Sparrow |
1 |
| Northern Pintail |
170 |
Red-bellied Woodpecker |
15 |
Song Sparrow |
40 |
| Green-winged Teal |
35 |
Downy Woodpecker |
12 |
Swamp Sparrow |
12 |
| Bufflehead |
4 |
Hairy Woodpecker |
3 |
White-throated Sparrow |
50 |
| Hooded Merganser |
3 |
Northern Flicker |
7 |
White-crowned Sparrow |
8 (Nature Center) |
| Pied-billed Grebe |
4 |
Blue Jay |
4 |
Dark-eyed Junco |
1 |
| Great Blue Heron |
18 |
American Crow |
2 |
Northern Cardinal |
2 |
| Turkey Vulture |
8 |
Carolina Chickadee |
40 |
Red-winged Blackbird |
75 |
| Black Vulture |
6 (Taylor's Gut) |
Tufted Titmouse |
8 |
Brown-headed Cowbird |
10 |
| Bald Eagle |
8 |
White-breasted Nuthatch |
1 |
American Goldfinch |
1 (Nature Center) |
| Northern Harrier |
9 |
Brown Creeper |
3 |
House Finch |
6 (Nature Center) |
| Cooper's Hawk |
2 |
Carolina Wren |
2 |
House Sparrow |
10 (Nature Center) |
To see a larger image of any of the photos below, please click on either the thumbnails or the captions...thanks!
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Howard B. Eskin 2011
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