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of loons and kinglets

2003-01-25 - 1:57 p.m.

A pleasant day bird-wise. We drove over to Oak Harbor in Slidell to search for the Pacific Loon that some people were seeing. Whoa. We saw a lot of loons. This must be the loon winter vacation resort. We didn't see the Pacific species though. Notables were Horned Grebe and a nice V of around 8 low-flying White Pelicans. Back home, I added to the day's bird list by watching the feeder and pond. To my stunned surprise, I added Golden-Crowned Kinglet. She was actually on the ground, near the pond. A Ruby-Crowned Kinglet and Yellow-Rumped Warbler were there as well. A lot of people have stated that it is a good year for Golden-Crowned Kinglet in Louisiana, but I hadn't observed any. I might have missed this one except it was so close and so low, allowing me to see the well-defined yellow crown that marks the female. At first, I was thinking, warbler, warbler, and kept thumbing through the book looking for a match with no success. Then the Yellow-Rumped Warbler bopped by and looked so huge by contrast that it snapped into focus that I was looking at an unfamiliar kinglet.

Note: Italics to indicate birds seen only in my yard.

  1. Common Loon
  2. Horned Grebe
  3. White Pelican
  4. Brown Pelican
  5. Double-Crested Cormorant
  6. Great Egret
  7. Mallard
  8. American Coot
  9. Ring-Billed Gull
  10. Laughing Gull
  11. Mourning Dove
  12. Rock Dove
  13. Eurasian Collared Dove
  14. Belted Kingfisher
  15. Eastern Phoebe
  16. American Crow
  17. Fish Crow
  18. Carolina Chickadee
  19. Tufted Titmouse
  20. Carolina Wren
  21. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
  22. Golden-crowned Kinglet
  23. Brown Thrasher
  24. Northern Mockingbird
  25. European Starling
  26. Yellow-Rumped "Myrtle" Warbler
  27. Northern Cardinal
  28. Common Grackle
  29. White-Throated Sparrow
  30. House Sparrow

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