Northern Shoveler (right) - female continuing from late December, Turner's Falls power canal, Franklin Co., MA. January 5th, 2014. Skillfully hiding among 350 Canada Geese!
Canada Goose - abberant bird with unusual amounts of white flecking on the black neck.
Turner's Falls power canal, Franklin Co., MA. January 5th, 2014. The goose flocks at Turner's Falls often
hold two or three birds like this which seem to have increased over the last five years or so.
Lesser Black-backed Gull - adult, Unity Park, Turner's Falls, Franklin Co., MA. January 5th, 2014.
Cedar Waxwing - Turner's Falls power canal, Franklin Co., MA. January 5t., 2014.
Nice to see after completely dipping on this species during the Greenfield CBC.
Yesterday evening I hung around for the goldeneye roost at the power canal. It was a fine show with about 85 birds coming in and a great deal of displaying. There was, however, no sign of the male Barrow's Goldeneye which I don't think has been recorded here since the beginning of the New Year. The Eastern Phoebe was also calling toward dusk, continuing from late December.
3 comments:
Hallo James. I love your blog.
Just one question, wich LBB Gull ssp.
that will be?
Thanks Tuvia.
The subspecies is graellsii..the only truly expected form of LBBG over here though one or two claims of intermedius have cropped up recently from the eastern US.
Did you get the Great Shearwater in Jaffa? Very cool that such birds can be photographed from that spot!
Thanks
That's what I thought only I wasent sure.
Did Not see this time Great Shearwater, but I saw one on the coast near Haifa in winter 2012. Indeed great bird! :-)
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