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Welcome to Forestal's Birding Page
This page is currently a work in progress (and it probably always will be)
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Upon buying David Sibley's Guide to (North American)Birds, and reading during vacation in Maine this summer, a passion was awakened on observing birds. Interestingly, I find I never paid much attention and can't identify even the common birds around, although with practice I am getting better. I am keeping a journal of my finds, I picked up David Sibley's "The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior" and am starting to read through this. Very fascinating; I do so love to learn new things. I am also interested in finding a local group/base to be able to hook up with; likely through the National Audobon Society.
I will be posting pictures of the birds I have decent pictures of, as photography is another amateur passion of mine, with most recent finds at the top.
March 2009 TitmouseTitmouse Song Sparrow Melospiza melodiaSong Sparrow Gold FinchGoldfinch Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottosMocking Mocking bird House sparrows Passer domesticusHouse Sparrow Male Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalisCardinal Male Downy Woodpecker Picoides pubescensDowny Mournign Dove Zenaida macrouraDove Red Tail Hawk Buteo jamaicensisRedtailed Hawk Pine Siskin Carduelis pinussiskin Febuary, 2009
Redtail Hawk Buteo jamaicensisRedtail Hawk Redtail
Pine Siskin Carduelis pinusPine Siskin Siskin
Northern CardinalFemale Cardinal
Downy WoodpeckerDowny
GoldfinchGoldfinch January, 2009
Faded JuncoJunco
Female Cardinalfemale cardinal
Male Goldfinchgoldfinch
Tufted Titmousetitmouse
White Throated Sparrow Zonotrichia albicolliswhitethroat I like the shot of this bird trying to stay warm in the snowstorm. 12/20/08
Northern Flicker - Yellow Shafted Colaptes auratusFlicker Male Flicker
Dark Eyed Junco - Slate colored Junco hyemalisJunco
Male Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalisMale Cardinal
Male Downy Woodpecker Picoides pubescensMale Downy
Canadian Geese and MallardsGeese and ducks
Male House SparrowMale molted sparrow
European StarlingStarling
Winter WrenWinter Wren (not a great shot)
10/25/08
Tufted TitmouseBaeolophus bicolortitmouse
White Breasted NuthatchSitta carolinensisfemale, and male were together, pics of male not good enough to show nuthatch
Dark Eyed JuncoJunco hyemalisSlate coloured variant Junco Junco
Black Capped ChickadeePoecile atricapillachickadee
House Sparrowfemale group sparrows 10/23/08
Cardinalfemale, and male were together, pics of male not good enough to show Cardinal
Great Blue HeronSame as seen below, better closeup Heron
Unknown- likely a vireo or flycatcher, tail not too long, short thin dark beak, white underside, drab grey/brown head , no eye ring ?vireo ?vireo
Warbler- likely a yellow-rumped warbler - not in the pics, but had a yellow rump above tail, coloration looks like Myrtle variety, maybe 1st winter Warbler Warbler Warbler Warbler
White Throated Sparrow Zonotrichia albicollisSparrow
Tufted Titmouse Baeolophus bicolorTitmouse
House Finch Carpodacus mexicanusMultiples of this bird seen at the feeder, either purple or house finch. I believe is house due to its curved culmen and grayer malars. Finch Finch
Downy Woodpecker Picoides pubescensWith its coloring and smaller beak most likey a downy vs. hairy. Downy male downy
Hairy Woodpecker Picoides villosusSeveral woodpeckers around. This is a female and due to longer beak, identifies as Hairy vs. downy. Hairy woodpecker
White Breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensisNuthatch
American Goldfinch Carduelis tristisMale starting molt. Goldfinch
Black Capped Chickadee Poecile atricapillaChickadee
Alder Flycatcher(vs. Ruby Crowned Kinglet)Taken 10/11/08 near my feeder, hovering around end of apple tree branches. flycatcher
House Finch Carpodacusfinch
Common Grackle Quiscalus quisculagrackle
Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinaliscardinal
House Sparrow Passer domesticusMolting male from breeding to winter plumage. sprarrow
Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristatajay
Great Blue Heron Ardea herodiasheron
European Starling Sturnus vulgarisTaken 8/23/08 at barn where my daughter rides in Coventry, CT. I believe these are molting juveniles, although coloring not quite right. Other individuals were present with more solid dark/black coloring. Tail/beak shapes/size seems closest match I can come up with Starlings Starling
Bald Eagle - Haliaeetus leucocephaluspictures taken 7/26/08 at Spring River Lake Bald Eagle at rest Flaring wings Common Loon - Gavia immerpictures taken 7/26/08 at Spring River Lake Loon Common Merganser - Mergus merganserpictures taken 7/26/08 at Spring River Lake Merganser and young Piliated Woodpeckerpictures taken 7/26/08 at Spring River Lake Female closeup Backshot Killdeer - Charadrius vociferusPicture taken on side road of Hebron Fair grounds, Hebron, CT June 16, 2008 Female guarding eggs Female flaring
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