2018 and 2019 Winter

This winter with early ice and snow cover took a lot of wintering song birds further South than last year, and November was not as good as 2017. But the ice largely melted and we had things like swans hanging out in Dec and January.

I had one rough legged hawk, but not that many yet.

A glaucous gull spent a few weeks at Branched Oak lake. It looks huge by the ringbill.

Red-breasted nuthatches have been everywhere. This one has been ringed.

And pine siskins are here, not seen every winter but now quite a few.

Harriers are on the prairie all year. This one I found in a fog on Pawnee Lake: