It was a cold and very windy day. At sunup it was 35 F and very windy. I decided to make it a "shelter in place" day from the weather and the coronavirus. At various times during the day I spent some time watching for birds from the apartment window. Most of the day was sunny, though the temperature never got out of the mid-forties. In the afternoon we had a few passing showers of sleet, before it got sunny again at the end of the day.
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| Ominous sky to the northwest before afternoon sleet shower. |
During the course of the day I recorded 19 species from the window. While nothing was new for my spring list, there were several good birds for the window: Spotted Sandpiper, Common Raven, and Northern Rough-winged Swallow. Full list below.
Canada Goose
Mallard
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Spotted Sandpiper
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Double-crested Cormorant
Blue Jay
Common Raven
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
European Starling
Northern Mockingbird
American Robin
House Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Northern Cardinal
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