Posted by ppeery on October 5th, 2009

The birds on Bundoran Farm in winter are quite entertaining. Not only do we have the year round resident red tails, field sparrows, pheobes….woodpeckers..,.. etc but we have some water fowl that visit Lake Scogo and we have the wintering birds. Just this week the kinglets and yellow bellied sapsuckers returned. The sapsuckers have a very distinctive call (almost like a meow) that is easy for people to learn to identity. In winter I have seen hermit thrushes, which have been called “America’s foremost songbird”. The flickers are here year round but do a lot of calling/talking this time of year and are easy to learn. They are also quite beautiful.

Dorothy Tompkins

Master Naturalist and Bundoran Farm Steward

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