I didn't get out to do much birding this weekend but I did get to enjoy my feeders. We got a good dump of about 25cm of snow on Saturday so there was lots of activity, including a new high count for us with 15 Purple Finches. I set up my camera and took some shots through the windows...
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| Everyone loves Blue Jays...we've got about 20 of them now! |
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| Some really nice adult male Purple Finches are showing up |
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| Female or young male Purple Finch with an American Goldfinch |
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| Adult male Purple Finch |
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| Adult male Purple Finch |
Purple Finches are fairly easy to count because the adult males are red while young males and females are brown, so in today's example I had a high count of 6 adult males and 9 females/young males.
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This afternoon I headed into Bancroft and took a bit of a detour hoping for something cool. I found a Wild Turkey at the SW corner of Baptiste Lake in a seepage area and then shortly after I got a quick look at an eagle being chased by a Raven. I drove up to a clearing and saw a young Bald Eagle land in some trees, at which point I noticed there was an adult already there. A couple minutes later I was talking to someone and he told me the eagles had been feeding on a wolf kill earlier in the day! I went back and found what was left of the wolf kill (pretty much nothing) but there were only a few Ravens on it. That's it!
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