Local February birds.
It's February, a month of taking what you can get birding-wise. For whatever reason, being in a new county makes me want to bird a little bit harder so I've been trying more than usual to get county year birds. It's been fun. It's also been a little easier now that I get texts from some of the local birders when they find cool shit, like this Western Screech-Owl tucked in a potential nest cavity:
This was probably a county bird for me, as my only previous sighting was a sketchy backlit bird at Ridgefield my first year of birding.
On a sunny day earlier this month I walked to Meadowbrook Marsh Park to work on my motorless list, adding only Green-winged Teal and Pied-billed Grebe, but also my first motorless rough-skinned newt!
Local birders had seen a Black Phoebe around Vancouver Lake Park recently and I tried for it a couple times unsuccessfully. There are plenty of birds to entertain there though.
Steller's Jay
White-throated Year Bird
Eurasian Wigeons
White-br…
This was probably a county bird for me, as my only previous sighting was a sketchy backlit bird at Ridgefield my first year of birding.
On a sunny day earlier this month I walked to Meadowbrook Marsh Park to work on my motorless list, adding only Green-winged Teal and Pied-billed Grebe, but also my first motorless rough-skinned newt!
Local birders had seen a Black Phoebe around Vancouver Lake Park recently and I tried for it a couple times unsuccessfully. There are plenty of birds to entertain there though.
Steller's Jay
White-throated Year Bird
Eurasian Wigeons
White-br…
