Took two hands to open my truck door at Alliquippa this morning in the breeze. Nonetheless there were a few highlights:
- 2 Harriers near the mouth of the Sprague River, imm. and a gray ghost
- On the intertidal sand (very low tide) at Seawall were 283 Blck Ducks, 1 Mallard Drake and a single No. Pintail Drake. Some of us have gotten used to seeing many more pintails than that here.
- A house w/ feeders near Parker Head Dam featured a B Kingfisher and a juv No. Shrike
- Visited awhile w/ the homeowners that are entertaining the juv Red-Headed Woodpecker and saw both it and the leucistic BC Chickadee out their kitchen window.
Bath Landfill: There using truck as blind, parked down near the flare from 2:10-3:40. 2 Ad Bald Eagles and 5 imm. there as usual. At 2:30 there was a Polar Vortex of gulls that left the pile and spiraled higher and higher up into the stratosphere.
The Golden Eagle made a brief appearance at 2:47. Don't know where he came from, but suddenly appeared in front of the pile and swung his wings upward (as you see pigeons do sometimes). Then drifted into the tall pines and directly into the sun. Presumably roosting, but never seen again. I believe the white flashes at the base of his primaries on the underside have gotten more prominent since the 16th of Dec.
A Cooper's Hawk crossed the playing field at 3:23.
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