BlueRavenBirders

5/25/2022
Birding at Chesterfield Reservoir

I have never seen this before. A long billed curlew standing in the sprinklers. Do you think this is intentional or does she think she’s stuck in the rain?

Sandhill crane with mate on the nest in the grass. Only the head of the mate is visible

Mostly brown headed cowbirds but one female redwinged blackbird is hanging out with them

Beautiful horse

Wilson’s phalaropes

Northern shoveler

Brown headed cowbird

Black necked stilt

Redhead

Red tailed hawk

Yellow warbler

Belted kingfisher

Ferruginous hawk

Birds

1. Brown headed blackbird
2. Red winged blackbirds
3. Yellow headed blackbirds
4. Brown headed cowbirds
5. Sandhill cranes
6. American crow
7. Long billed curlews
8. Mourning dove
9. Northern flicker
10. Gadwalls
11. Canada geese
12. American goldfinch
13. Clark’s grebes
14. Eared grebes
15. Western grebes
16. California gulls
17. Ring billed gulls
18. Ferriginous hawks
19. Red tailed hawks
20. Great blue herons
21. American kestrels
22. Killdeer
23. Belted kingfisher
24. Horned larks
25. Black billed magpies
26. Mallards
27. Western meadowlarks
28. American white pelicans
29. Wilson’s phalaerope
30. Common raven
31. Redhead
32. American robins
33. Solitary sandpiper
34. Northern shoveler
35. Black necked stilt
36. Barn swallows
37. Cliff swallows
38. Tree swallows
39. Cinnamon teals
40. Yellow headed warblers
41. American wigeons
42. Willets
43. Marsh wrens

Mammals

1. Mule deer
2. Ground squirrels