Afton SP 2012 08 16

Today's adventure:

Afton SP, Washington, US-MN
Aug 16, 2012 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Protocol: Traveling
1.0 mile(s)
Comments: Started out quiet. A cold front came through on Wednesday. First 15 minutes, no birds but then found a couple of small flocks.
22 species (+1 other taxa)

Turkey Vulture 1 - I don't know if it was the same one 3 times or 3 different ones
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Mourning Dove 3
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 heard
Downy Woodpecker 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 heard
Empidonax sp. 1
Eastern Phoebe 1
Eastern Kingbird 2
Blue Jay 1
American Crow 1 heard
Black-capped Chickadee 6
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
House Wren 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1
Eastern Bluebird 10
Cedar Waxwing 4
Eastern Towhee 1
Chipping Sparrow 3
Field Sparrow 2 - Several sparrows not counted, including a possible Henslow's. All were flitting around the prairie grasses.
Song Sparrow 1
Indigo Bunting 1
American Goldfinch 4 heard

At one point, I heard an unusual noise and thought it was some weird bird. Scared up a doe and two fawns before I realized the sound was the "bleating" sound of a fawn. Pretty cool !

Also had a Red Squirrel running up and down a tree, checking me out. A female, based on the enlarged mammary glands.

A Gray Squirrel was munching on some berries of a juniper tree.