[bcbirdclub] Burkes Garden Trip
- From: Daryl Owens <daryl.owens@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Buchanan County Bird Club <bcbirdclub@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 09:15:29 -0500
Yesterday (12/13/13) Mike Sanders and I took a trip to a very cold Burkes
Garden in hopes of seeing some migrant and resident raptors. With eBird and
listserves lighting up like christmas trees with this year's Snowy Owl
eruption, we thought there may be an outside chance for a sighting there with
Burkes Garden's inviting habitat. We of course dipped on the Snowy Owl and on
some other regulars like the Bald Eagle pair and also on Golden Eagles. We did
end up with 37 species for our four hours of birding. Some notables were 4
Loggerhead Shrikes, 5 Wilson Snipe, numerous American Kestrels, 50 Canada
Geese, a lone Red-headed Woodpecker, one Northern Harrier and upwards of 20
Red-tailed Hawks. Perhaps our best bird of the day was a perched Rough-legged
hawk who gave us great looks through Mike's scope. At one point, we had the
Rough-legged, Harrier and a Raven all together in the FOV of the scope.
Although we missed a couple of target-birds it was a very enjoyable day of
birding. I personally can't get enough of Burkes Garden and yesterday's trip
made me look forward to February's outing.
Daryl Owens
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