BlueRavenBirders

Monday August 5, 2019

I’ve been trying a few evening birding adventures so this week Melinda and I headed out for Market Lake. She’s only here for a few days so we’re maximizing our birding. I was surprised by the number of Double crested cormorants. They were even flying in large v formations across the sky. I did not know they flew together. – Jenny

Great blue heron

Double crested cormorant

Trumpeter swan and cygnet preening

Canada geese

Double crested cormorant

Northern harrier

Muskrat

Double crested cormorant taking off

Mysery female duck with teenagers

Surprise Bald eagle
We didn’t realize the raptor was a bald eagle until we looked at the zoomed in photo on the camera.

Horse & Mule

Fast moving Double crested cormorant

Surprise Mule deer
We saw him from the overpass, but I couldn’t figure out where he was in the field of grain through my camera lens. So I was just guessing and hoping he’d show up in one of the photos.

Birds

1. Swainson’s hawks
2. Rock doves
3. Eurasian collared doves
4. House sparrows
5. Black billed magpies
6. Red tailed hawks
7. Western kingbirds
8. Eastern kingbirds
9. Black capped chickadee
10. Great blue herons
11. Canada geese
12. Mallards, juveniles
13. Trumpeter swan and cygnets
14. Marsh wren
15. Spotted sandpipers
16. Wilson’s phalaropesw
17. Green winged teals
18. Greater yellow legs
19. Black necked stilts
20. White faced ibises
21. Willets
22. Killdeer
23. Barn swallow
24. Blue winged teals
25. American coots
26. Northern shoveler
27. Double crested cormorants (100s)
28. American white pelicans
29. Cinnamon teals
30. Cliff swallows
31. Yellow headed blackbirds
32. Northern harriers
33. Pied billed grebe
34. Bald eagle
35. Long billed dowitchers
36. Lesser yellow legs
37. Bank swallows
38. European starlings
39. Brewer’s sparrows
40. Mourning doves
41. House wrens
42. Common grackle
43. Osprey
44. Prairie falcon

Mammals

1. Jack rabbit
2. Mule deer
3. Muskrat