The first frost
A frosty morning at the park for the first time this season and, perhaps not surprisingly all the bees have moved from the still flowering plants.
Oddly no Mallard or Geese were seen to day and the long staying Hooded Merganser seems to have a new companion in the shape of an eclipse or young male Bufflehead. I judged to be a young/eclipse male by the white breast and grey side although it had a full female type head.
Down at the riverbed a pair of Killdeer were flushed and flew off towards Pooh Bridge. A male Belted Kingfisher noisily fed around the area where the two streams join. The weedy area contained a lot of birds, mostly Goldfinch but also Yellow-Rumps, Ruby-crowned Kinglet and the first of two Phoebe
Just past the Magic Spot a juvenile Sapsucker was watched. The black pectoral band becoming well developed but no red is showing on the head yet.
Oddly no Mallard or Geese were seen to day and the long staying Hooded Merganser seems to have a new companion in the shape of an eclipse or young male Bufflehead. I judged to be a young/eclipse male by the white breast and grey side although it had a full female type head.
Down at the riverbed a pair of Killdeer were flushed and flew off towards Pooh Bridge. A male Belted Kingfisher noisily fed around the area where the two streams join. The weedy area contained a lot of birds, mostly Goldfinch but also Yellow-Rumps, Ruby-crowned Kinglet and the first of two Phoebe
Just past the Magic Spot a juvenile Sapsucker was watched. The black pectoral band becoming well developed but no red is showing on the head yet.
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