Last Sunday our park of choice was Colony Farm Regional park. We started walking down the path from the parking lot and saw some commotion
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Yellow-rumped Warbler [Setophaga coronata] ~ #42
This one’s kind of a first for me as well. There are a few varieties of the Yellow-rumped Warbler. Last year was my first spotting

Marsh Wren [Cistothorus palustris] ~ # 39
The Marsh Wren was a bird that always escaped my detection. Many times walking through the Reifel Bird Sanctuary I would hear them, but would

Tree Swallow [Tachycineta bicolor] ~ #38
These little guys really should have appeared closer to the top of my list. I’m pretty sure this was the variety that I was seeing

Gadwall [Anas strepera] ~ #17
After we saw the trio of ducks we kept following the Garden Trail path which led us to a little bridge, and then a bigger
Hooded Merganser [Lophodytes cucullatus] ~ #16
Hanging out near the Ring-necked duck was this cool looking Hooded Merganser. I initially thought it was a female, but then based on the yellow