This Weekend In Birding

Friday, Saturday, Sunday: Insane weekend with views of Dickcissel, Snowy Owl, Rufous Hummingbird, and Fox Sparrow all in New Hampshire!!!  66 species in all or so... 

1. Brant
   
2. Canada Goose
   
3. Mute Swan
   
4. Wood Duck
5. Mallard
6. Green-winged Teal
7. Ring-necked Duck
   
8. Common Eider
   
9. Surf Scoter
   
10. White-winged Scoter
    
11. Long-tailed Duck
    
12. Bufflehead
    
13. Common Goldeneye
    
14. Red-breasted Merganser
15. Red-throated Loon
16. Common Loon
    
17. Horned Grebe
18. Red-necked Grebe
    
19. Northern Gannet
    
20. Double-crested Cormorant
    
21. Great Blue Heron
    
22. Red-tailed Hawk
    
23. Merlin
24. American Coot
    
25. Black-bellied Plover
    
26. Sanderling
27. Purple Sandpiper
    
28. White-rumped Sandpiper
    
29. Dunlin
    
30. Bonaparte's Gull
    
31. Ring-billed Gull
    
32. Herring Gull
    
33. Great Black-backed Gull
    
34. Rock Pigeon
35. Mourning Dove
    
36. Snowy Owl
    
    
37. Rufous Hummingbird
    
    
38. Blue Jay
    
39. American Crow
    
40. Black-capped Chickadee
    
41. Tufted Titmouse
    
42. White-breasted Nuthatch
    
43. Golden-crowned Kinglet
    
44. American Robin
45. Northern Mockingbird
    
46. European Starling
    
47. American Pipit
    
48. Cedar Waxwing
    
49. Nashville Warbler
    
50. Yellow-rumped Warbler
    
51. Chipping Sparrow
    
52. Savannah Sparrow
    
53. Savannah "Ipswich" Sparrow
    
54. Fox Sparrow
55. Song Sparrow
    
56. White-throated Sparrow
    
57. White-crowned Sparrow
    
58. Dark-eyed Junco
    
59. Lapland Longspur
    
60. Snow Buntings
    
61. Northern Cardinal
    
62. Dickcissel
63. House Finch
    
64. Pine Siskin
    
65. American Goldfinch
    
66. House Sparrow

for some clarification for non birders both dickcissel and rufous hummingbirds "don't belong" in NH

Dickcissels are midwestern birds and Rufous Hummingbirds occur on the west and winter in the south (florida to texas)

Additionally numbers of snow buntings were estimated between 200-300 (we counted their legs and divided by 2)

The lapland longspur was picked out by Steve Mirick among the snow buntings

The common Goldeneye was the first of the season picked out by Jane Mirick

other highlights included a birder getting his 300th life bird and Jessie getting 19 life birds in one day!

- someone else's owl photos:
http://beautifulflyingobjects.blogspot.com/ - peter's
http://www.pbase.com/lmedlock/nh_snowy_owl - len's

Thanks to for access/use to your photos!