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Hello, and Riverwood + Erindale birds

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Reply #105 on: January 22, 2011, 03:00:43 PM
Finally saw some bird worth posting today at Riverwood from about 1:45 - 2:30
1 flyover great blue heron
2 red-tailed hawks
1 red-bellied (male), 3 hairy and 5 downy woodpeckers
3 white-breasted nuthatch
1 white-throated sparrow, and plenty of trees and juncos

I also met 4 people looking at birds at the bottom of the hill below the MacEwan House and Art Gallery. Was that anyone on this forum?
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Reply #106 on: January 22, 2011, 03:04:45 PM
wasn't us, but we do plan on going tomorrow morning.  :)
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Reply #107 on: January 28, 2011, 04:54:40 PM
Very quiet this afternoon, but I did see 1 black duck/mallard hybrid among 86 mallards, and a pileated woodpecker. Otherwise virtually nothing: no juncos, tree sparrows, house sparrows, nuthatches, robins, cardinals, goldfinches etc.
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Reply #108 on: January 29, 2011, 12:41:58 PM
No winter finches, but still a very good day for winter. The birds definitely feel spring is coming, with cardinals, house finches and chickadees singing, house sparrows scouting out nesting spots and hairies and downies displaying to each other.

Erindale:
5 downies, 2 hairies, 1 red-bellied
5 white-breasted nuthatch

Riverwood:
1 red-tail
8 downies, 5 hairies, 2 red-bellied
2 red-breasted and 4 white-breasted nuthatch
1 robin
1 swamp (surprisingly nobody had seen this yet) and 1 white-throated sparrow
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Reply #109 on: January 29, 2011, 01:07:00 PM
We're heading to Riverwood tomorrow, didn't make last weekend.
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Reply #110 on: January 30, 2011, 11:06:36 AM
Today at Erindale:
1 sharpie
1 red-bellied (female), 1 pileated (heard) and 3 downy
2 white-breasted nuthatch
loads of finches (still just house and gold though)
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Reply #111 on: January 30, 2011, 07:38:47 PM
We saw on Sunday the 30th...

WBNH's
lots of Northern Cardinals (heard the Spring song of one male...  much to our delight)
Downy Woodpeckers
Hairy Woodpeckers
Juncos
Chickadees
Red-bellied Woodpecker (spot on it's belly...  male?)...  might have seen another further along, but couldn't get a fix on it's stomach for a spot
American Tree Sparrows
Robins

and an unknown something or another, heard it quite a bit across the marsh (south of Burnhamthorpe) making a sound like we've never heard before, caught sight of it temporarily before it fly into some brush...

We always forget how much we enjoy that area until we get there.
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Reply #112 on: January 31, 2011, 01:23:54 PM
Today at Erindale:
65 mallard
1 red-tail and 2 coops
3 downies
1 creeper
3 robin
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Reply #113 on: February 06, 2011, 11:52:25 AM
A very good morning for a walk at Riverwood and Erindale. The snow clearly brought lots of birds to the feeders, and brough the chickadees to my hand in larger numbers than ever before. I don't think I've ever seen this many hairy woodpeckers, chickadees or doves in winter before:

2 red-tails
60+ mourning dove
1 red-bellied, 7 downy, 7 hairy woodpecker
50+ chickadees
2 red-breasted and 7 white-breasted nuthatch
1 creeper
3 carolina wrens. 1 was in the section of Riverwood where I know there's a pair, but the other pair was surprising. They were feeding in a low squirrel's nest near the two little bridges in Erindale.
2 golden-crowned kinglets
3 robins
sparrows: 35+ junco, 8 tree, 2 white-throated, 1 swamp
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Reply #114 on: February 13, 2011, 11:26:40 AM
A very nice morning for a walk at Riverwood, but the birds weren't as active as I expected. Still some very nice sightings.
I had a lot of fun handfeeding chickadees, I'll post some pictures.

Other good birds (some of these were along the road on the walk there):
2 coops and 1 sharpie
3 red-bellied and 4 downy woodpecker
2 white-breasted nuthatch
about 20 robins
1 swamp and 2 white-throated sparrow
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Reply #115 on: February 16, 2011, 04:23:33 PM
The highlight this afternoon was a very early chipmunk, and hundreds of the winter stoneflies that I posted in the photo forum on the weekend.
Also:
88 mallard and 29 geese
1 red-tail
1 downy and 1 red-belly
1 w-b nuthatch
4 tree sparrow
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Reply #116 on: February 23, 2011, 05:28:54 PM
Highlights today in Riverwood included 2 singing carolina wrens, great looks at a pair of pileateds (drumming and calling), the swamp sparrow, and 3 chipmunks.
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Reply #117 on: February 23, 2011, 06:48:54 PM
CHIPMUNKS!!! I must go soon!  :D
I have missed them.
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Reply #118 on: February 27, 2011, 11:21:28 AM
A good day. Not much ambiguity about the highlight today: an adult bald eagle flying over! :D
Other good stuff:
3 red-tails
1 red-belly, 6 downy and 3 hairy
8 w-b nuthatch
1 creeper
1 carolina wren
2 robin
1 white-throated sparrow
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Reply #119 on: March 06, 2011, 11:50:50 AM
No migrants like I was hoping today, but a carolina wren, 3 white-throats and the swamp sparrow were nice
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