100 for Waldie

I got up this morning to find a dark and rainy landscape outside my window. Might as well go birding. I was excited to try out the new camera lense I had ordered, despite the less than optimal conditions outside. It turned out to be a good time, finding my three species I had only seen once before along this trail: Pied-billed Grebe, Ruffed Grouse, and Brown Creeper.

I was also quite amused to watch an American Dipper moving along the rocks and through the water right beside the trail. He would "paddle" along from rock to rock.

While heading back to the car I stopped to observe some House Finches. I noticed something larger in a tree silhouetted against the clouds, a Townsend's Solitaire, my 100th species for this trail! A pretty wicked milestone for this little area.

Location: Waldie Island Trail
Observation Date: 12/14/10
Number of species: 22


Mallard
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Barrow's Goldeneye
Common Merganser
Ruffed Grouse
Pied-billed Grebe
Great Blue Heron
Bald Eagle
Ring-billed Gull
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
American Crow
Common Raven
Black-capped Chickadee
Brown Creeper
American Dipper
Townsend's Solitaire
Song Sparrow
House Finch