http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/27/rachel-louise-carson-google-doodle
more on Ms Carson : https://www.google.com/search?q=Rachel+Louise+Carson&oi=ddle&ct=rachel-louise-carsons-107th-birthday-6210023252295680-hp&hl=en
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This morning on Butterfly Meadow, I spotted a weird looking very molted Tanager species perched on the Buttefly Mead fence before the bird flew up into the east Pin oak then locust nearby before it took off . Rob Bate was there behind me and spotted briefly the bird down the path later. I noted a red spot on the bird's wing tertiaries. Just reddish and weird looking..that I presumed was a Summer.
From appearance and profile it leans towards Scarlet but keep a heads up if you are up there on Lookout .
GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHER ( past breeder here) , HOUSE WREN, INDIGO BUNTING ( fem) were some other birds we spotted at Butterfly.
-KB
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From Keir
Date and Effort
Tue May 27, 2014 5:55 AM
- Protocol:
- Traveling
- Party Size:
- 3
- Duration:
- 3 hour(s), 20 minute(s)
- Distance:
- 2.0 mile(s)
- Observers:
- Keir Randall
Species
59 species (+1 other taxa) total
8 | Canada Goose |
|---|---|
4 | Mute SwanBreeding Code
FL Confirmed--Recently Fledged Young
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1 | Wood Duck |
5 | Mallard |
1 | Double-crested Cormorant |
2 | Green HeronBreeding Code
ON Confirmed--Occupied Nest
|
2 | Black-crowned Night-Heron |
3 | Spotted Sandpiper |
4 | Laughing Gull |
8 | Herring Gull |
7 | Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) |
5 | Mourning Dove |
3 | Chimney Swift |
4 | Red-bellied Woodpecker |
1 | Downy Woodpecker |
1 | Hairy Woodpecker |
2 | Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) |
3 | Eastern Wood-Pewee |
3 | Empidonax sp.
Including a likely Yellow-bellied, only glimpsed near bottom of switchback trail and a possible Acadian call.
|
3 | Great Crested Flycatcher |
2 | Eastern Kingbird |
7 | Warbling Vireo |
6 | Red-eyed Vireo |
7 | Blue Jay |
1 | Tree Swallow |
7 | Barn Swallow |
1 | Tufted Titmouse |
1 | White-breasted Nuthatch |
3 | House Wren |
2 | Carolina Wren |
1 | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
3 | Gray-cheeked Thrush
Lookout, Lullwater and Midwood. Two very gray and one with a little red brown in tail but no contrast in face.
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2 | Swainson's Thrush |
2 | Wood Thrush |
20 | American RobinBreeding Code
FL Confirmed--Recently Fledged Young
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8 | Gray Catbird |
20 | European Starling |
15 | Cedar Waxwing |
2 | Ovenbird |
2 | Northern Waterthrush |
1 | Black-and-white Warbler |
6 | Common Yellowthroat |
7 | American Redstart |
1 | Northern Parula |
3 | Magnolia Warbler |
3 | Yellow Warbler |
1 | Chestnut-sided Warbler |
6 | Blackpoll Warbler |
1 | Black-throated Blue Warbler |
2 | Black-throated Green Warbler |
1 | Eastern Towhee |
4 | Song Sparrow |
6 | Northern Cardinal |
2 | Indigo Bunting |
5 | Red-winged Blackbird |
4 | Common Grackle |
5 | Brown-headed Cowbird |
6 | Baltimore Oriole |
1 | American Goldfinch |
8 | House Sparrow |
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From Adam
Hi All
At 10:45am today I was in the Lullwater Cove (opposite the Rustic Arbor) with my photographer friend Francois Portmann (http://fotoportmann.com/birds/). Francois spotted a cuckoo which on closer inspection turned into a Black-billed. We watched the bird as it moved around the cove, sometimes coming quite low down. As we were about to leave Francois spotted a second cuckoo flying in, though I could not relocate it and identify it.
Not bad for a 15 minute walk in the park.
Cheers
Adam