New Year New Birds

Each year I start my bird count over. In 2014 I photographed 58 birds. I hope to improve that number in 2015. Today we went on our first bird watching walk in 2015 and saw 7 birds!

walk

Here they are:

#1 Pileated Woodpecker
PileatedWoodpecker

#2 Red Bellied Woodpecker
RedBelliedWoodpecker

#3 Cooper’s Hawk
CoopersHawk

#4 Hairy Woodpecker
HairyWoodpecker

#5 Cardinal
Cardinal

#6 Northern Flicker
NorthernFlicker

#7 American Robin
AmericanRobin

New Birds!

Today I took advantage of being on spring break to go bird watching. I went to Huntley Meadows Park to find some new birds. I was very lucky today and captured 8 new birds on camera. A few were completely new while others I’ve photographed in previous years. The new birds are:

#28 Tree Swallow
TreeSwallow
#29 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crownedKinglet
#30 Common Yellowthroat
CommonYellowthroat
#31 Green Heron
GreenHeron
#32 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
BluegrayGnatcatcher
#33 Red-winged Blackbird
RedWingedBlackbird
#34 Hairy Woodpecker
HairyWoodpecker
#35 American Coot
AmericanCoot