Birding at the Salem Landfill today with Ross and Jon B. was absolutely fabulous -- good excuse for Jon to get out with his camera, good excuse for me to stare avidly at avian amigos pecking at piles of half-recyclable refuse. Ross and I wore ridiculous hats. We all wore three or eight layers. Our little trio parked in a snowbank and tromped around a small mountain, dodging garbage trucks, for as long as we could stand the piercing winds and sub-zero temperatures, taking turns with Ross's gloves and my binoculars. Some pictures are above, and the list of birds we were able to identify from the black, black cloud of hundreds we couldn't get very close to because of the trucks is below.
Onyx Landfill
Salem County
12/10/05
10:15 a.m.
American Crow
Glaucous Gull
Herring Gull
Horned Lark
Mourning Dove
Northern Cardinal
Red-tailed Hawk
Ring-billed Gull
Rock Dove
5 comments:
Is the bird pictured a horned lark?
Sure is, you little birder you!
Ain't never seen one of them. But some day, Ginny Lee. Some fine day.
bec, i totally would've gotten you a cage and some horned lark's eggs for xmas, but that's not nice. to the horned larks i mean.
Aaaand, a red-tailed hawk in the first pic? -Tait
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