Tommy Thompson Park - a 12 lifer affair!

Was not disappointed this weekend at Tommy Thompson Park, as I got 12 lifers in 4 hours! Tommy Thompson Park is a notorious waterfowl hotspot - throughout the winter, I will bird there looking for waterfowl, owls, larks, buntings, raptors, and possibly longspurs.

Here are the new birds I saw:

1 Peregrine Falcon
1 American Coot
1 Black-billed Cuckoo
1 Ring-necked Duck
1 Lesser Scaup
1 Green-winged Teal
9 Trumpeter Swan
10 Canvasback
15 American Wigeon
20 Redhead
30 Greater Scaup
30 American Pipit

Here are some photos:

Palm Warbler - one of 10

Brown Creeper - one of 7

Yellow-rumped Warbler - one of 50

Creepy Herring Gull - one of 10

Black-billed Cuckoo 

Canvasbacks - 10 of them in the group

Lesser Scaup: leftmost bird   -   Greater Scaup: 3 rightmost birds

Northern Shovelers

Greater Scaup

-Owen