Bernards house & Birding with the Friends

This week myself and a few of my co-workers put up a nesting box for Bernard. Hopefully there is still time this season for Bernard and his mate to use the box. Typically Barred owl courtship has begun and a nesting location has been chosen, but this house is pretty nice...so we will have to see.

Also this week was the Eagle Festival, I was stationed again at Deer Island. A few good birds in addition to the Eagles, a juvenile Red-shouldered Hawk soared above the island for a very difficult ID. A few Peregrines also made passes by the island.

Finally some of the Friends of Belle Isle came up for some birding around Newburyport and we got some great birds, a very cooperative flock of Cedar Waxwings being my favorites of the day.

                                                                     Bernard's house

                                                           Common Mergansers

                                                             Immature Bald Eagle

                                                              Adult Peregrine Falcon

                                                              Red-shouldered Hawk

                                                           Immature Bald Eagle

                                                                  Cedar Waxwings

                                                                          Horned Lark