Hello, and Riverwood + Erindale birds

[Reuven_M]

No blackbirds yet, but many robins and starlings were clearly newly arrived. Also the pair of red-tails.

[Reuven_M]

1 KILLDEER, 1 TV, ~60 robins, ~40 starlings this morning at erindale

[Reuven_M]

1 grackle and about 30 robins at Erindale in the rain, I also had about 10 grackles on my way to school this morning

[Rob'in'To]

Awesome!  I don't care what people say...  Grackles are cool!  I only get a small group of maybe 4 to 6 through the summer.  But fall migration can have 60+ stopping in every few days.

[Lloyd]

I like the Grackles, too. And we get lots of them around my neighbourhood. I haven't seen or heard any yet but they are a sure sign of Spring.

[Reuven_M]

Red-wings don't really mean spring to me, because I've seen them occasinally in the winter, but grackles, killdeer and vultures do, and I've had all 3 recently
I really like the big (300+) flocks of grackles and other blackbirds in the fall.

[Reuven_M]

8 red-winged blackbirds, 2 grackles, a killdeer, 40+ robins in the rain at Erindale
also a red-bellied woodpecker

[Reuven_M]

Not much today (a mockingbird, red-bellied and killdeer), but it was nice to be out without a jacket on.

[Reuven_M]

This morning at Erindale: 3 hooded (new for me for Erindale/Riverwood), 2 common mergansers, 1 black duck
1 pileated
4 killdeer
1 mockingbird
2 cowbirds

edit: also 3 deer and a muskrat

[Reuven_M]

Today's birds included a pair of hooded mergansers and 4 song sparrows. Plenty of insects flying around now (midge type things)

[Reuven_M]

There were plenty of birds concentrated wherever there was food today.
2 creepers, one which was, bizarrely, eating seeds on a platform feeder at Riverwood
1 swamp, 1 white-throated (these have been hanging out together at riverwood since january), 2 song sparrow
a very brief look at a probable fox sparrow in erindale
1 carolina wren
A very large flock of birds near the entrance to riverwood feeding on sumac and a large patch of bare ground including about: 40 robins, 50 starlings, 30 red-wings, 30 grackles, 1 cowbird

[Reuven_M]

The coopers are definitely nesting near their old nest in Riverwood, and I think they might reuse the nest. I saw the male breaking a branch about 50 m SE of the old nest, and 5 seconds later the female flew in cackling (I saw her 40 minutes before at the main parking lot). Unfortunately, a red-tail then flew over, the birds froze, and didn't move again, even when I left for 10 minutes and came back.
Other bird today included the swamp and 2 white-throated sparrows, red-bellied woodpecker
also a chickadee excavating a nest hole

When is it going to warm up... should be seeing tree swallows, phoebes, fox sparrows, toads, snakes by now... I haven't even seen a flicker yet!

[Bird Brain]

Awesome re: Coopers!   ... and can't wait to start seeing snakes again!  

[Reuven_M]

No new sightings for the year today, but many blackbirds clearly arrived today, I'd guess at 80 grackles and 60 red-wings.

Also a vulture, a red-tail, 3 killdeer, 4 tree sparrows and a muskrat

[Reuven_M]

Still no new migrants, I'm sure if I was out in the morning I could have seen some, hopefully tomorrow morning. Still some nice birds (and loads of chipmunks)

Riverwood:
1 cooper's hawk (soaring), none in the nest area
the swamp sparrow

Erindale:
1 vulture
a male pileated
5 creepers
2 song sparrow