Welcome to Angela's Bird Photo Gallery!

Three Common Mergansers swimming in front of the cottage
Adult and baby Loon	A timid Sparrow
A male Hairy Woodpecker is going to move in on the chickadee for his breakfast. On occasion we will see pileated and blackbacked three-toed woodpeckers.	A female Evening Grosbeak all puffed up to stay warm while she watches for danger.
The ravenous Evening Grosbeaks come in flocks to enjoy Welcome Lodge's hospitality!	These male and female Purple Finches are regular guests
A patient Goldfinch waiting on top of the feeder for its seeds.  the goldfinch turns a green/grey in wintertime.	Pine Grosbeak in his Frosty Castle
The majestic Osprey watching over it's nest	My favorite picture, the Great Blue Heron in the golden grasses at the waters edge
Our sweet guests, the Ruby-Throated Humming birds are always busy at the Lodge	Everyone's favorite "THE LOON"
Young Prince Pine Grosbeak.	Our Very Own Gray Jay

We have also seen pine grosbeaks, kingfishers, sandhill cranes, white and red breasted nuthatches, warblers, mourning doves, canada or gray jays, flickers, purple martins, tree sparrows, redpolls, cedar and bohemian waxwings, pine siskins, woodcocks, osprey snow buntings.  Occasionally we will see great grey owls, barred owls, snowy owls indigo buntings, crimson breated grosbeaks, cardinals and baltimore orioles.  We also see large flocks of ducks in the fall.   There are other kinds of birds and the crow/raven varieties we have not listed but are still out there to discover!

BIRD SPECIES

Seen within a 3 mile radius of Welcome Lodge

Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Eared Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Canada Goose
Snow Goose
American Bittern
Least Bittern
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night Heron
Trumpeter Swan

Wood Duck
Green-wing Teal
American Black Duck
Mallard
Gadwall
Common Pintail
American Wigeon
Eurasian Wigeon
Northern Shoveler
Blue-winged Teal
Ringed-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Greater Scaup
Common Goldeneye
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
White-winged Scoter
Longtail
Redhead
Ruddy Duck
American Coot

Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Golden Eagle
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Northern Goshawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
American Kestrel
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon

Ruffed Grouse
Sandhill Crane
Sora
Black-bellied Plover
Semiplamated Plover
Lesser Golden Plover
Killdeer
Lesser Yellowlegs
Spotted Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Dunlin
Wilson's Phalarope
Common Snipe
American Woodcock
Short-billed Dowitcher

Bonaparte's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Franklin's Gull
Caspian Tern
Common Tern
Black Tern
Rock Pigeon Dove
Mourning Dove

Great Horned Owl
Snowy Owl
Northern Hawk Owl
Barred Owl
Great Grey Owl
Northern Saw-whet Owl

Black-billed Cuckoo
Common Nighthawk
Whip-poor-will
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Black-backed Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker

Eastern Pewee
Least Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird

Horned Lark
Tree Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Rough-winged Swallow
Gray Jay
Blue Jay
American Crow
Common Raven

Blacked-capped Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Winter Wren
Carolina Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Veery
Swainson's Thrush
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher

Cedar Waxwing
Northern Shrike
Blue-headed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo

Tennessee Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Pine Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Black and White Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird
Common Yellowthroat
Canada Warbler

Northern Cardinal
American Tree Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Leconte's Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
House Sparrow
Lapland Longspur

Dark-eyed Junco
Snow Bunting
Red-winged Blackbird
Rusty Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird

Bobolink
Western Meadowlark
European Starling
Northern Oriole
Scarlet Tanager

Pine Grosbeak
Purple Finch
Red Crossbill
White-winged Crossbill
Common Redpoll
Hoary Redpoll
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
Evening Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Rose-breasted Grosbeak

The above is a list of recent sightings within 3 miles of Welcome Lodge. The list of species sighted within our region is twice as large, so we have more work to do to expand our sightings.

November 17^th, 1999 was a special day. In the past we have sighted an adult eagle but on this day we saw two adult eagles and a juvenile eagle.

To find out more about the
Mashkinonje Christmas Bird Count 2002
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