Donnelly and Bear Island WMA

Howdee all,

When a friend of a facebook friend offered to take us birding in her area.

We took her up on her kind offer.

Gotta Love Social Media!

First stop

Donnelly WMA

What's this?

Alligator…

Its stayed like this for a good ten minutes..

At first glance I thought that it had a turtle…

Then I noticed feathers..

I thought Anhinga because of the slivery white feathers in the mouth..

Bruce thinks it is a Common Gallinule.

What bird do you think it has?

This is a beautiful area..

It was a great morning…a bit on the chilly side.

Anhinga..

Little Blue Heron..

Bruce took us to all her favorites spots..

We scanned the area for ducks and whatever else we could find.

It was a good to have a scope…

Many of the birds were too far for binoculars.

Alligator Island..

Cormorant

We stopped at Savage Backwater and to our surprise

We saw 39 Black-crowned Night Heron..

To far for my baby lens …

This area held many Common Gallinule

And Alligator of course..

All the white you see.. is a distant gathering of

Wood Stork..

 

Fox Squirrel

Yellowlegs

A great day of birding with a new friend.

Thanks Bruce!

Number of Species: 63

Donnelly WMA
Date: Mar 2, 2013, 9:30 AM
  Bear Island WMA
Date: Mar 2, 2013, 12:38 PM

  Canada Goose 
  Wood Duck 
  Gadwall 
  Mottled Duck 
  Blue-winged Teal 
  Northern Shoveler 
  Green-winged Teal 
  Ring-necked Duck 
  Bufflehead -
  Hooded Merganser 
  Pied-billed Grebe 
  Wood Stork 
  Double-crested Cormorant 
  Anhinga 
  American White Pelican 
  Great Blue Heron 
  Great Egret 
  Snowy Egret 
  Little Blue Heron 
  Tricolored Heron 
  Black-crowned Night-Heron 
  White Ibis 
  Glossy Ibis 
Black Vulture 
  Turkey Vulture
  Northern Harrier 
  Red-tailed Hawk 
  Sora 
  Common Gallinule 
  American Coot 
  American Avocet
  Lesser Yellowlegs 
  Forster's Tern
  Mourning Dove 
  Belted Kingfisher 
  Red-headed Woodpecker 
  Red-bellied Woodpecker 
  Hairy Woodpecker 
  Pileated Woodpecker 
  Eastern Phoebe -
  Blue Jay 
  American Crow 
  Fish Crow 
  Tree Swallow 
Carolina Chickadee
  Tufted Titmouse 
  White-breasted Nuthatch 
  Brown-headed Nuthatch 
  Carolina Wren 
  Ruby-crowned Kinglet 
Eastern Bluebird 
Northern Mockingbird 
Pine Warbler  
Yellow-rumped Warbler 
Yellow-throated Warbler 
Eastern Towhee 
  Chipping Sparrow 
Savannah Sparrow 
Song Sparrow
Northern Cardinal 
  Red-winged Blackbird 
  Boat-tailed Grackle 

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