More to come shortly, in the meantime here's a typical scene of eastern Arkansas birding. What waterfowl can you identify?
Eastern Arkansas in flight. What are they?-
Whooper Swans at Lake Kussharo, Hokkaido
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To be honest, I never cared too much for swans. On the one hand, they are
very easy to see in Germany, swimming in public parks or teaching
pensioners ho...
3 days ago
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Wood ducks??
Have a happy new year!!
Pink-footed Geese?
My eyesight's not that good... Welcome back home!
Rouchswalwe - interestingly, the day I was out birding we saw *no* Wood Ducks! Lots of other waterfowl (including the pictured birds), but Wood Ducks were a big miss.
Nick - I wish Pink-footed Geese would make it to AR, especially in numbers like these geese (oops, I just gave away they're geese). Pink-footeds would be a lifer!
Jan m - are you saying my pictures aren't clear enough?? :-)
Actually, I agree, and it's something I hope to fix in the upcoming posts.
Incidentally, it was great to read your blog and keep up on what was happening in the area! Not as much snow upon our return as we expected. I wish you knew where I lived so you could have told me our feeding station got pulled down. Again.
Hope you all had great holidays!
-Mike
I believe the hunters call these guys Specklebellies.
Give n8 the cupie doll! This is a flock of Greater White-fronted geese, which also held the only Canada geese we found for the day (and I suspect there was at least one Cackling in there, but I'm not positive).
The Canadas aren't visible in this shot, but there are two "blue geese," or the blue form of the ubiquitous-in-Arkansas-in-winter Snow Goose. They're the ones without the dark band on the tail.
Nicely identified, n8! Now I can start the new year with nothing left unresolved; a clean slate of sorts. Thanks for the peace of mind!
-Mike
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