Claudia
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1. Silver Springs at the river: Anhinga, cormorants, kingfisher, red shouldered hawk, great blue heron, tricolor heron, and osprey are often seen. In the same park but on the Sandhill Trail there are scrub jays, red headed woodpeckers, quail, red-bellied woodpeckers, towhees, chickadees, and various warblers at different times of the year. Four miles apart and totally different habitats and birds. 2. Down House: seems like it would have woods (woodpeckers) meadows (larks) and not far from bodies of water (various gulls). Sevenoaks must have large freshwater body of water to account for all the ducks, swans, geese with wooded area nearby.
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1. We went to Silver Springs State Park and hiked a trail through sand hills to wetlands and to Silver River. Along the trail we saw red shouldered hawk, Quail, Woodpeckers: red bellied, red headed, and pileated, bluebirds, chickadees, and cardinals. At the river we saw Anhinga sunning themselves. 2. I hadn't used the most likely filter before and discovered most of the birds I see looking out windows or sitting in my backyard: house finch, wrens, chimney swifts, pileated woodpeckers, red bellied woodpeckers, humming birds, American crows and fish crows, bluebirds, downy woodpecker, and white Ibis. 3. I hadn't used the bar charts on ebird before. So helpful. In August we identified 7 Mississippi Kites traveling through. We've heard warblers but they are so difficult to see. The charts and sound recordings really helped us id Northern Parula, great crested flycatcher, and pine warblers. We've heard the whistling ducks fly overhead and observed a Great Egret plucking a lizard out of one of the bushed in our front yard.
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1. Mocking bird and Mourning Dove: The Mocking bird is more slender, longer tail, obvious legs while the dove is rounded, with shorter legs and smallish seeming head for its body. 2.Three woodpeckers with red, black and white: Pileated, smaller spot on back of head, long skinny neck, more black than white-white around head; Red-bellied little red on head, white front and neck, thin black and white stripes on wings; Red-headed, all red head, white chest, black wings with large white splashes. They are easy to distinguish when looking at those three colors. 3. Eastern Kingbird is a large flycatcher that perches on tops of tree limbs and then quickly snatches large insects. Chimney Swift flies around swooping but always high in the air. Eastern Bluebird perches on fences, telephone wires and flies down to the grass to grab and insect. 4. I love the Swallow-tailed kite, a large bird with its striking white body outlined with black and its deeply forked tail, which it uses like a rudder on a sailboat. I rarely see it in a tree but only flying often very low and swooping to get insects or lizards. It is only in our area May through July but I love to watch it swoop by.
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1. I've visited Ithaca many times to see relatives. We always find our way to Sapsucker Woods and the Wall of Birds. My grandchildren were enthralled and they would love the interactive Wall on this site. I think the Asiatic Fairy Bluebird is lovely. Penguins are so amazing as are the walking birds such as emu. 2. I love red bellied woodpeckers with their red heads and noisy clucking around. I was trying to spot a mocking bird and discovered it was a brown thresher imitating a cardinal, twice. I loved to watch nuthatches at my previous resident. They fly so quickly and do Darth Vader imitations when being territorial. 3. Now my favorite neighborhood bird, though only as it passes through, are the swallowtail kites. They are such dramatically colored birds, white and black, and sail through the air using their swallowtails as rudders.
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