Montezuma Bird List

First yesterday's bird list. I've listed species only since the numbers of each ranged from a countable one or two (the Robin, Bluebird, Great Blue Heron, Grackle, Starling, Killdeer, Pileated Woodpecker) to an impossible thousands (many of the ducks). Most were seen at the Refuge proper. Only the Pileated and Great Blue were unique to the Audubon Center some miles north.

Location: Montezuma NWR--Auto Loop
Observation date: 3/18/10
Notes: Nearly windless, cloudless, warm spring day with temperatures in the 50s and low 60s.
Number of species: 27

Canada Goose X
Tundra Swan X
American Wigeon X
American Black Duck X
Mallard X
Northern Shoveler X
Green-winged Teal X
Green-winged Teal (American) X
Canvasback X
Redhead X
Ring-necked Duck X
Bufflehead X
Hooded Merganser X
Common Merganser X
Great Blue Heron X
Bald Eagle X
Red-tailed Hawk X
Killdeer X
Ring-billed Gull X
Herring Gull X
Pileated Woodpecker X
American Crow X
Eastern Bluebird X
American Robin X
European Starling X
Red-winged Blackbird X
Common Grackle X

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)


Some pictures are coming. (Not many--it's surprising how you can shoot 70-75 photos and find only half dozen keepers! Thank goodness for digital!) I've been experimenting with Photoshop Elements 7 and have still to learn how to use it properly. Getting those immense RAW photo files down to manageable size has become one of my immediate needs! With both Photoshop Elements 7 for Dummies and The Photoshop Elements 7 Book for Digital Photographers on hand (as well as the online help sources from Adobe), I may be able to figure out all the editing and resizing by this evening. Life, as always, will interfere, however, as I've got a couple of chores I need to do that will take me out of the house for a few hours today. So be patient.