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Melanistic Ring-necked Pheasant

Sure not much to report lately. Mainly, Canada Geese, Trumpeter Swans coming over daily, from winter wheat fields to the river. And, moose. See 2-3 daily on place, from yearling calf to cows to bulls, both young to a couple big, mature ones. 
 
This AM, looked out across winter wheat field & saw, what I thought was a Raven with 2 Pheasant roosters. Binocs showed a completely black RN Pheasant rooster. First I’ve ever seen.
 
Brian Carrigan 
Blackfoot
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Re: No Birds at Feeders


Having bemoaned our lack of birds, we woke up to double the usual number of lesser goldfinches and juncos. Around noon a flock of about 100 robins came into the neighborhood
and were followed by about 50 cedar waxwings.  Next up was a large flock of starlings, who tried to find out how many of them could land on our bird bath at one time (about a dozen is the correct answer). Two yellow rump warblers appeared with the starlings
(a first for our yard). The final group of the day was a flock of two to three dozen magpies. By 3 PM all the birds were gone, not so much as a junco remained.  I’m guessing the next weather front is pushing them, or maybe it was our neighborhood’s turn on
their rotation schedule.

 

Great fun either way!

 

Tom Soniville

 

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