The Winter GBBC 2020
This past weekend was the winter great Backyard Bird Count from Feb 14 through Feb 17. How many of you participated this year? I wanted to attempt to participate but it was also Valentine's day and weekend. So that meant a busy wedding weekend for me. I did manage to sit on the back patio and count birds visiting my backyard for 20 minutes in between Weddings and this is what I came up with. The cowbird count may be a little low because they came and went several at a time. As you can see, there were some brown birds... ok a lot of brown birds and variants thereof...I was not real sure about. I have pictures of them below the list.
Here are my notes
All pictures below taken by SL Thomson
These are birds I have a tough time identifying.
possibly a juvenile or female brown-headed cowbird or even a female grackle
I want to call this a red shoulder hawk but could be mistaken. We have 2 that visit our yard regularly. They seem to be a pair but I have no idea which is male and which is female.
Not sure if this is a female grackle or something else
maybe a female grackle, Carolina wren or something else.