Hi All!
Yesterday I decided to do my last hike for the Big January, meaning you have to find as many birds as you can during January!! I ended up with 83 species (Including a couple of rarities!). I went to multiple places including Long Beach, Stratford Point, Frash Pond, Silver Sands State Park. Silver Sands had some good birds including a Barred Owl (Strix Varia) and some Fish Crows (Corvus ossifragus) and Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus). Long Beach had some HUGE gull flocks! I was able to pick out the continuing Iceland Gull (Larus glaucoides) and a Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus)! Other birds included Sanderling (Calidris alba), Dunlin (Calidris alpina), and a Northern Harrier (Circus hudsonius). Frash Pond had 9 Canvasbacks, 2 Hooded Mergansers, and 5-7 Canada Geese. Stratford Point had 6 American Wigeons, 10-11 Common Eiders, 4 Herring Gull, 1 Ring-billed Gull, 1 Greater black -backed Gull and a Northern Harrier. Silver Sands had some Domestic Dog prints and Short Beach had a dead Virginia Opossum.
Hope you enjoyed this blog post!
Tony
Sanderlings Long Beach Stratford, CT
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| Herring Gull. Long Beach, Stratford CT |
Barred Owl. Silver Sands State Park. Milford,CT
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| Canvasbacks, Frash Pond. Stratford,CT |
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Female Long-tailed Duck. Long Beach Stratford CT By Tony Belejack |
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