Leslie Street Spit - Saturday, Feb. 12

[AlvanBuckley]

Hello everyone,

I spent another full day at Leslie Street Spit today with a number of good sightings. I've included my eBird list here to share the sightings in case someone wants to look for some of these tomorrow!

good birding,

Mute Swan     4
American Black Duck     1
Mallard     5
Redhead     2
Greater Scaup     75
White-winged Scoter     37 - haven't seen them yet this winter so I was happy to see so many!
Long-tailed Duck     200
Bufflehead     10
Common Goldeneye     100
Hooded Merganser     2
Common Merganser     50
Red-breasted Merganser     35
Horned Grebe     2 - they're coming back
Red-necked Grebe     1 - I got some pictures of this guy. I'll have them on my blog tomorrow evening.
Red-tailed Hawk     1
Ring-billed Gull     X
Herring Gull     X
Iceland Gull     2
Glaucous Gull     1 - 1st winter
Downy Woodpecker     2
Hairy Woodpecker     2
Northern Flicker     1  - a woman told me that a flicker has been over wintering at the spit for 3 years consecutively!
Black-capped Chickadee     15
European Starling     7
American Tree Sparrow     3
Common Redpoll     66
Hoary Redpoll     1 - I couldn't find a Hoary when I was there but when I reviewed my pictures I 'found' one.

[Matthew Strimas-Mackey]

Thanks for this. I was thinking of going down to the spit tomorrow morning.

[DaveD]

Great list Alvan!

Why is it getting shorter? There were a few more on that list yesterday, no?

[Reuven_M]

I think everyone knows there are owls on the spit, no reason not to say so.

[AlvanBuckley]

Someone privately and kindly asked that I remove them and I didn't have a problem doing that. If you have an issue with that we can discuss it privately!

[angieinto]

I was just checking out your blog, is there away to "follow" you, like with blogspot? I enjoyed all the entries I read. I have "Silence of the Songbirds", but have not read it yet. Loved your picture of the Snow Buntings, I've never seen them, but am hoping too soon.

[AlvanBuckley]

Hi Angie,

I can add you to my email list, let me know if that's OK with you. Unfortunately I don't really have any other choices.

Thanks for your interest

[Andreas Jonsson]

Thanks for the report Alvan. And great blog by the way. Love your photography! I couldn't find a (RSS) news feed though. Is that something you are thinking about adding? Would make it very convenient to follow your posts!

Thanks,

Andreas

[AlvanBuckley]

Hi Andreas,

I've finally given in and coded the RSS feed. Wasn't as hard as I thought it would be!
You should be able to find it on my blog.

thanks,
Alvan

[egret]

hi

i just checked your blog too

great
and will read it more later

can I be added or whatever you did there

tks

Egret

love the Nfld px
i spent some time there
tho not enough

[AlvanBuckley]

Hi,

Have you ever used an RSS feed? You can go to this URL:
www.alvanbuckley.com/feed.xml
where you can subscribe to the blog.

Otherwise I can add you to the email list! Let me know which one you prefer.

You can never spend enough time in NFLD

thanks,
Alvan