2015 Bird Count

[Catherine]

You are right about the red winged black birds. I have seen them go after a Red tailed hawk. I have seen crows go after a hawk too. The western king birds don't range this far east. The red tailed hawks range from the west coast to the east coast, but they do not go to far north.

We do get bald eagles. They are wintering further south right now, but they will be back. As you can guess we do not have a lot of birds here over the winter. There are many more than I have seen so far, but not as many as we have in summer.

Interestingly, some birds spend winter south of here and nest north of here and they are only seen during migration periods. That is an exciting time. You never know what you might see or when you might see it.