Birds for 12/26/09

[loonylupinlover]

Mom and I went to Oaks Bottom and stopped by Westmoreland Park briefly. The wind was fierce and the day cold and clear, but we bundled up hardcore and didn't entirely freeze to death. It was my first time trying out my brand new Nikon 10x50 binoculars from Ben :)

Double-crested Cormorant
Canada Goose
Cackling Goose
Mallard
American Wigeon
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveler
*Canvasback
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Common Merganser
Great Blue Heron
California Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Thayer's Gull
Anna's Hummingbird
Western Scrub-jay
American Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
Bewick's Wren
European Starling
Bushtit
Song Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird

26 species, not too shabby! The Canvasbacks were new for me, and that brings me up to 169 species on my life list :)