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Birdwatching at Ashbridges Bay: January 2021

The one bird species that I usually count on photographing here is the Black-capped Chickadee:

Black-capped Chickadee

On this day, there was so much bird seed spread out in the park that the Chickadees showed no interest in me nor my pocket stuffed with quality sunflower seeds. Too full:

Here are the birds I was able to photograph:

Common Goldeneyes (male)
Common Goldeneye (male)
Common Goldeneye (male)
Red-breasted Merganser (female)
Common Merganser (female)
Common Merganser (female)
Canada Goose
Long-tailed Duck (female)
Long-tailed Duck (male)
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead (male)
Mallard (male)
Hybrid “Bib” Duck
Mallard (male)
Mallard (male)
Mallards
Mallards
Gadwall (female)
Gadwall (male)
Ring-billed Gulls
Ring-billed Gulls, Gadwall and Mallards
Canada Geese, Gadwall and Mallards
Ring-billed Gulls
Ring-billed and Herring Gulls
American Robin
Northern Cardinal (male)
Common Redpoll
Common Redpoll
Common Redpoll
Common Redpoll

Park scenes:

Gray Squirrel

NATURE POETRY

A cold coming we had of it
Just the worst time of the year     
For a journey, and such a journey:     
The ways deep and the weather sharp,     
The very dead of winter.                                          – T.S. Eliot (1888–1965).

Miles Hearn

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