Sunday Shots, 01/15/23

Outside of my snowy experience from yesterday, the rest of the weekend was mostly the usuals. On Saturday afternoon I went for gulls in Newburgh and only found one Iceland Gull (in addition to the expected 3 species). This morning I found the Snow Geese again; not quite as many – maybe 3,500 or so. I also found the three amigos in the black dirt: Snow Buntings, Horned Larks, and 1 Lapland Longspur. Wickham Lake had a good number of Common Mergansers and a very high number of gulls present – probably over 120 gulls. I’d say they were 65% Ring-billed, with the remainders being Herring Gulls.

~Northern Harrier in flight at the Liberty Loop, 01/14/23.~

As for yesterday’s waterfowl count, Linda provided me with our results. Note that this is just for the Black Dirt Region:

Mute Swan: 2
Canada Goose: 2,642
Cackling Goose: 2
Snow Goose: 5,615
Mallard: 31
American Black Duck: 13
Common Merganser: 3
Bufflehead: 1

~Horned Lark on the road in the black dirt, 01/15/23.~

~Young White-crowned Sparrow at the Liberty Loop, 01/14/23~.

~Northern Harrier at the Liberty Loop, 01/14/23.~

4 thoughts on “Sunday Shots, 01/15/23”

Nice birds! Didn’t have many up here in the big wind (and icy precipitation) this morning. But I also had a single Snow Bunting.

mattzeit says:

January 15, 2023 at 6:56 pm

Sounds brutal, Brian. A Snow Bunting is a nice consolation, however. Matt

Thanks for trying to get me on the snow geese this morning Matt.

mattzeit says:

January 15, 2023 at 9:04 pm

Of course, Mary, no problem. It sounds like you maybe didn’t catch up with them. Hopefully they will stick around and you’ll get another chance. Matt

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