Well we were back in the “grove” today in search of the elusive three toed woodpecker, with mixed results. We were able to locate the bird by its song, but only visual contact was made, the bird was inflight, no photos were managed. From a good news perspective we spotted a Grey Jay today, and that is the first one sighted inside the city in a couple of years.
An interesting section of the park, a lot of hornet/wasp nests, the one below is in pristine condition, usually by now birds have torn these apart looking for pupae or larval insects inside.
This was the largest concentration of weasel tracks that I have seen since I have arrived in Alberta. This section of the park also has a garter snake hibernation (hibernaculum) site that is protected.
Other birds from today included Geese, Hairy and Downy woodpeckers, Chickadees, whitewinged crossbills, pine siskins, nuthatches, and a couple of Townsends Solitaire like below:
This guy stood on this post and twirled for us just like a model.
Turbo
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