St. Vital Park Birding

At last! I finally am getting this post out... it always takes way too long. It's already been almost a month since we went birding with Christian Artuso and our homeschool group at St. Vital park.

Without further ado.

Here are some sparrows from the morning under our feeders.

Lincoln's Sparrow

Harris' Sparrow

We met with our homeschool group and Christian Artuso did a talk for us about Manitoba birds and identifying birds. After that great talk we went to St. Vital Park, a park nearby to the place we meet. We did some birding there. Let the pictures roll forth!

female Mallard

Christian and some kids (and William)

There were two waterthrushes there.

Northern Waterthrush

Immature Ring-billed Gull

Palm Warbler

American Coot

Wood Duck in grass

female Black and White Warbler

Ring-billed Gulls on lampost

female Mallard

female Mallard

 Two Solitary Sandpipers were some of the highlights.

Solitary Sandpiper

Ring-billed Gull

Wood Duck

female Wood Duck

 And another Wood Duck picture... him showing off his bouncy hair.

Wood Duck

 And another Wood Duck...

female Wood Duck

 Sorry, still another! :D

female Wood Duck

 Canada Goose standing on a Wood Duck nesting box

Canada Goose

 We walked down some trails and went willy nilly looking for birds.

Least Flycatcher

 And in this tree there are some pretty hefty holes, which would belong to a Pileated Woodpecker.

Pileated Woodpecker holes

Blue-winged Teal

Mallard

American Coot 

Chipping Sparrow

 Annndddd, the last picture... there were a lot of pictures, but at least there wasn't a lot of text. With just a lot of pictures you can just skim through it, not having to read lots and lots and lots of text.

Palm Warbler

And that's the end. I hope you enjoyed. Thank you Christian for doing that with us!!