So many new birds!

Yesterday we went to Lake Stephens and saw 8 (EIGHT!!!) new birds! It was a lot of fun. Unfortunately, I didn't get great pictures of some of them. I saw 3 different kinds of swallows (Tree Swallows, Barn Swallows, and Northern Rough-Winged Swallows) and tehy were hard to capture. They were flying all over the lake, swooping here and there. Cool birds. We also identified our first Hawk. We got a Broad Winged Hawk. And then there was a Greater Scaup ( a duck), an Eastern Phoebe, and a Spotted Sandpiper, and a Red Breasted Merganser (another duck). Fun day. And then today I saw another beautiful White-throated Sparrow pecking the ground beside a great looking Chipping Sparrow. Here they are:


Here is the Hawk


Greater Scaup


Tree Swallow


Some Rock Pigeons we saw on the way out of the neighborhood