American Pipits

 Based on BBC emails, I headed to the Delaney Flood Control Site.   Great place, bad name, tons of birds.  Went for the pipits . . .

stayed for the eagles

Also saw a flock of bluebirds, red-winged blackbirds, and ducks and swans.  

The swans did a little loop around the area.  They are big birds - it took me a minute to figure out what they were.

Columbus Day Weekend

 Its been a really great fall birding season.  Lot's of warblers.  I should have kept track.  There was one outing that included a black and white, a yellow, and a small flock of Parula's. 

Anyway, it is Columbus Day weekend, and the warblers are still around. But the weekend's highlights were bigger.

This morning at Jenks I came face to face with a barred owl.

Saturday morning the Acton Arboretum was full of woodpeckers, including a couple of red bellied

and one pileated.

 

There were plenty of birds.  I believe I saw two yellow warblers, one at Jenks and one at rolling meadows.

and some pretty sparrows, but I'm not sure which kind.  Probably some white throated and some immature white crowned is my best guess.