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I got sick and tired of being snowbound so I walked over to Lazelle Woods
this afternoon. The feeders in the backyards adjoining the park were
either covered with snow or the owners couldn't get out to refill them
because of the snow. Nothing was along there except a noisy flock of
hungry house sparrows waiting for a handout.
There was a lot of activity in the woods though. 4 downy woodpeckers, 1
hairy woodpecker, 2 red-bellied woodpeckers, nuerous Carolina chickadees,
tufted titmice, and dark-eyed juncos. Along the edge of the woods in the
back of the park is where the northern cardinals were. I saw at least 4
of them. Heard but not seen were white-breasted nuthatches and northen
flickers.
Back at home I made several rounds of the apartment complex. While there
weren't as many species present as usual, it was not insignificant. Of
course there were numerous cardinals. Also about 20 Canada geese sitting
on the ice in the largest of the four ponds close to the only hole of open
water, 4 house finches (all females), a red-tailed hawk, and numerous
mourning doves. Absent were the usual mallards, cardinals, and
goldfinches.
Some of the ring-billed gulls I reported in an earlier post "discovered"
the Polaris Kroger. There's nothing unusual about finding gulls there but
today there was an unusually large flock up there.
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