Winter Birds

Song Sparrow

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Brown Creeper

Here are a few of the less common winter birds in our yard.

More from Baylands: Palo Alto, CA

Lesser Goldfinch (western variety)


Cliff Swallow in nest


American Avocet


Clark's Grebe with a fish


Song Sparrow


Anna's Hummingbird


A brief birdwatching trip to the Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve showed a good variety of birds. Song Sparrows were everywhere and made their presence known. The Lucy Evans Baylands Nature Interpretive Center was built to house exhibits but the area under the roof was covered with cliff swallow nests. The only disappointment was that I didn't see the rare clapper rail, but the tides and time of year weren't ideal. I may be back next winter.

Birds from Tallman Mountain State Park, Piermont NY

Baltimore Oriole

Carolina Wren


Song Sparrow

 

Female Red Winged Blackbird



When we stayed in Piermont, NY our B&B was close to the entrance of Tallman Mountain State Park. We took a brief walk and encountered a few birds. There was quite a bit of singing with the wren, the oriole, red-winged blackbirds and song sparrow competing for our attention.

The yellow warbler got our attention by its color not song.

Yellow Warbler

Piscataway Birds

 

Palm Warbler  (previously misidentified as a yellow warbler)

Song Sparrow 

We took an afternoon walk and found these birds in the field behind the park.

Song Sparrow trying to look thin

Here are two pictures of a song sparrow who feeds on the ground under our feeders.

Song Sparrow