10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2024

The rooms are floating in a pond and the pond provides a home for a Eurasian Beaver family. Just across the bridge, some kind climate change people had invested a lot of money in a climate forest which to me looked like beaver food. The beavers agreed. Skeins of Greylag Geese completed the picture.

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Beavers Netherlands Eagles Geese 139

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2012

The conference timed nicely with sparrow migration and everyone was anxious to get views of reported Nelson’s Sparrows that were obligingly hanging out in some mud along a beaver pond. Other birds can viewed there like the above American Pipit, Wilson’s Snipe and White-crowned Sparrows.

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Family Beavers Minnesota Sparrows 156

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2020

“Oh, sweet Canada, Canada, Canada” is perhaps the best-best known of birdsong mnemonics in North America, familiar to birders as an aid to remembering the voice of the White-throated Sparrow ( Zonotrichia albicollis ). There are some who claim that the thinly whistled tune of this boreal songster also fits the line “Old Sam Peabody”.

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Canada Beavers Sparrows North America 158

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2016

This trip was actually all about photographing the grizzly bears the inhabit the Katmai National Forest, I will not bore you with the flight details, from La Paz, Mexico to Alaska, but it included several planes, one of which was a De Havilland Beaver float plane. Gold-crowned Sparrows were found around many of the salmon filled streams.

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Grizzly Bear Alaska Bears Puffins 154

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

This Savannah Sparrow was one of many that flitted around the gravel on the trails and roadways. In addition to the birds, we saw Mule Deer, Beaver, Muskrat , and Mink. As I walked along the trails, and water control dikes, I got to enjoy birds just about everywhere. Here is one of those, hyper-active little Marsh Wrens.

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Blackbirds Mules Beavers Wildlife 119