Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Birdwatching

My dad led a birding trip last week that I decided to go on. Like any other good birding trip, it all began at the local Adult Shop. I thought it was pretty funny the Audubon group met here, but anyway...


We went to a man's house just outside of Turner who had taken farmland that used to be a wetland, and reconverted it back to a wetland. He has put a lot of time and energy into this land to make it a nice refuge for birds and other wildlife. We found this mystery skull below:


The weather wasn't great, but not bad either, just some sprinkle showers. The main wetland below:


This huge dog lived with a herd of goats and was quite protective of them.


The highlight of the trip was definitely seeing two barn owls fly from the barn (he spooked them out for us to see). A bald eagle also flew over us while we were out walking. Others we saw: Eurasian Wigeon, Bufflehead, Ring necked Ducks, Barrow's Goldeneye, Blue Winged Teal, Kildeer, Great Egret (flew by us while squawking, that was cool), American Kestrel, Red winged Blackbird, American Wigeon, and Song Sparrow. There were some others that I can't remember as well.

2 comments:

megan said...

That is hilarious that they met near an Adult shop! That must have been fun to see your Dad leading the birders.

aaron said...

where's pink floyd?