We had a pretty exciting month as far as the number of different varieties of birds to report for the month of March 2011.
The most outstanding find was our new hawk visitor that comes quite a few times a week now to both the backyard and the front yard. He visits the trees and sits there for periods of time before swooping down to actually chase some of our feeder birds away. He isn’t very large and we think we have identified him as a Red shouldered hawk or a Coopers Hawk. He is featured in the photo above. He was sitting in the tree in the early morning sun and was flaring his feathers out as he looked at me watching him. Thanks for the photo Mr. Hawk!
March 2011 Birds – 31
Birds seen at our feeder or in our yard:
American crow
Red shouldered hawk
Turkey vultures
Western scrub jays
Common raven
European starlings
Oak titmouse
Cedar waxwings
Canada geese
Mourning doves
Norther flicker
Dark-eyed juncos
White-crowned sparrows
White-breasted nuthatches
Acorn woodpecker
Nuttall’s woodpecker
Spotted towhee
California towhee
House finches
House sparrows
Lesser goldfinches
American robins
These were seen outside our yard:
Anna’s hummingbird
Rock doves
Snowy egret
Brewer’s blackbirds
Steller’s jay
California gull
Mallard ducks
Red-wing blackbirds
Red-tail hawk
You can find free bird related notebooking pages at the following links:
NotebookingPages.com – Free Pages (scroll down)
Bird Notebook Pages for Copywork and Narrations
Audubon Notebook Pages on Jimmie’s Collage
Feeder Birds Coloring Book from Cornell
Thanks for the links, they are excellent resources! Sorry we haven’t been linking up, but my daughter wasn’t having anything to do with nature study during the winter. Once it warmed up some, she seemed inclined to go out, but it has been raining non-stop around here. 🙁
Great resources! Thanks for sharing! Wow – what an incredible hawk photo – great capture!
I agree – GREAT links! I downloaded and saved all the notebooking and coloring book pages for future use! (We’ve used some of the Cornell ones though.) Thanks for sharing! You have TONS of birds there!
Jessy
we have a Red-shouldered hawk that lives across the road. He squawks like crazy in the morning. Thanks for linking up!
Love the links! Thank you. This is very helpful! And, I really love the pic of your hawk. What a catch with the camera. I wish I had been there with our video camera. Nice!
Love that red shouldered hawk photo. What a wonderful variety you have at your feeder!
You are so generous with your free resources. Thank you!
How fun, what a wonderful picture! My daughters were wondering if it could be a Juvenile Coopers Hawk, or a Sharp-Shinned Hawk which we have read are really hard to tell apart. It did say in our field guide that when the sharp-shinned tail is spread the tail feathers are rounded…hmmm…unless you have seen him fly away and you see his definite shoulder patterns of the red-shouldered hawk. Either way, what an exciting bird to come to your yard…we have had what we believe to be a coopers hawk come to our back yard only a couple of times, but very rarely and very quickly…never long enough to photo! Thank you for sharing everything…so inspiring as always Barb!
What a terrific photo!!!
Your hawk photo is very definitely an accipiter. It is a sharp-shinned hawk or a Cooper’s hawk. The eye color is the biggest giveaway, and then the plumage. I have trapped and banded hundreds of these hawks in Nevada in the fall with Hawkwatch International. Terrific photo! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Jan….off to look in my field guide.
He is a very pretty bird!