Weed Walk Diary – March 2011
3/16 – Central Broome
Light rain ending gave us a good early spring outing seeing many ducks on the rivers/wet spots including Wood Ducks, Am.Wigeons, Blacks, Mallards, N.Pintails, Green-Winged Teals, Ring-Necked, Hooded & Common Mergansers. In open fields were W.Turkeys, Cooper’s/Red-Tails, Red-Shouldered, Rough-Legged Hawks & Am.Kestrels. At a Matt Ryan Rd. feeder we counted dozens of C.Redpolls. A huge flock of Red-Winged Blackbirds
& C.Grackles plus Am.Robins everywhere and other to-be-expected species gave us a total of 39sp.
3/23 – Cancelled due to heavy snow storm
3/30 – Water Habitats
22Sp at River Rd. included Wood Ducks, Ring-Neckeds, Lesser Scaup, Hooded/C.Mergs, Pied-Billed Grebe, Killdeer & Tree Swallows. Our car tour then gave us Turkey Vultures, Am.Kestrels, pr. of Snow Geese on George St., E. Bluebirds, Fox Sparrow/Song Sparrows & still many C.Redpolls per above. Our BOD was the pair of Red-Breasted Mergansers giving us close looks from the Rt.79 Tioughnioga R. bridge at Itaska while a Bald Eagle flew over. At Boland Pond besides Gr.Blue Herons was a circling Osprey; DC Cormorants on the river behind K-Mart made a total of 43sp for a great morning.
Dan Watkins
Marie Petuh
Jan Trzeciak
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