Today's birds

[steorra]

Today I made two short trips to a local stream and saw quite a few different kind of birds, partly with the help of binoculars:

• Great blue heron wading in the stream
• Hawk (red-tailed?)
• Green-winged teals
• Black-capped chickadees
• American robins
• A reddish finch (house finch?)
• A hummingbird too far away to identify and too quick for me to binocular
• A little yellow-and-black bird, probably a goldfinch but it was gone before I got a good look at it.
• A tiny bird that I suspect was a golden-crowned kinglet because I think I saw a splash of yellow on its crown but again I didn't get a good look before it was gone.
• Some brown sparrow-y birds that I couldn't identify
• Plus the city birds I see all the time without going anywhere: pigeons, crows, starlings, gulls (glaucous-winged?)

I also saw some red admiral butterflies and I think I caught a glimpse of a scampering mouse-sized mammal but it got into cover too quickly for me to really see (probably just a mouse).

Comments

[shirebound]

Oh my, what a bounty of sightings. And butterflies, hooray!