Two Tortoiseshells!

Was doing a good job of surveying my patch for birds until I came upon lots of enticing butterflies to record on video!Seen a Compton Tortoiseshell,a few Milbert`s Tortoiseshells,lots of Mourning Cloaks and Commas!Was having a hard time recording them due to the glare on the lcd monitor and the flightiness of the butterflies.The glare is going to be an ongoing problem because of habits of butterflies who come out later in the day.As for the birds seen new for the year Pied-billed Grebe and Yellow-bellied Sapsucker were nice and saw 20 Canvasbacks in one pond!

April's Fools Big Half Day!

The weather fooled with me,rained and was cold,the forecast said otherwise!Tried hard to do a big day which I plan on doing every first of the month in my patch.Did walk 8km.in 4 hours looking for everything moving and calling in all the good spots.Only new bird of the year was a Wilson`s Snipe.Here is a list of birds seen,

1.Canada Goose
2.Mallard
3.Canvasback
4.Ring-necked Duck
5.Bufflehead
6.Hooded Merganser
7.Northern Harrier
8.Red-tailed Hawk
9.Killdeer
10.Wilson's Snipe
11.Ring-billed Gull
12.Northern Flicker
13.Black-billed Magpie
14.American Crow
15.Black-capped Chickadee
16.American Robin
17.European Starling
18.American Tree Sparrow
19.Fox Sparrow
20.Song Sparrow
21.Dark-eyed Junco
22.Red-winged Blackbird
23.Western Meadowlark
24.Common Grackle
25.Rock Dove