Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: P1030433 Fz18

A bad feather day

01 Jan 2008 182
Two days ago, I took part in the Cochrane Reserve 2007 Christmas Bird Count. This is north-west of the city. This little male Downy Woodpecker had just visited the feeders at one of the farms/ranches that we stopped at during the day. He looks a little windswept : ) Birds sighted by my small group of 5 people, just in case anyone is interested : Bald Eagle-2ad/1imm, all feeding on dead coyote. Rough-legged Hawk-6 Merlin-1 (located 1 km east of Water Valley, 3:50pm) Rock Pigeon-7 Great Horned Owl-2 Northern Pygmy-Owl-1 (S on R 4.4, about 1 km S of our S boundary-T29.0, at 4:15pm) Downy Woodpecker-15 (plus 1 at Pygmy-Owl) Hairy Woodpecker-2 (plus 1 at Pygmy-Owl) Pileated Woodpecker-1 Blue Jay-2 Black-billed Magpie-49 Common Raven-19 (plus 11 in a group heading west at 4pm.) Black-capped Chickadee-78 Boreal Chickadee-6 Red-breasted Nuthatch-16 White-breasted Nuthatch-4 Golden-crowned Kinglet-2 European Starling-5 Brown Creeper-1 Bohemian Waxwing-50 White-winged Crossbill-33 Common Redpoll-205 House Sparrow-170 Coyote (alive)-1 White-tailed Deer-13 Mule Deer-8