Tuesday, May 15
5:00 am
It is +12 °C, with a high forecast of +31 °C.
From the Environment Canada website:
Today Mainly sunny. Wind becoming west 20 km/h gusting to 40 this afternoon. High 31. UV index 6 or high.
Tonight Clear. Wind west 20 km/h gusting to 40 becoming light this evening. Low 10.
9:00 am Geocaching
I needed a find for this date, so left early this morning for Pavan Park, with the idea of combining a little geocaching with some birding using my new telephoto lens. The find turned out to be straight forward. I left a TB in the container.
- GC3EF9X - Our very first geocache find.
I have now found caches on 266 different dates, only 100 more dates and I will have the days of the year grid filled in.
1:00 PM Birding
The birding was quite successful at Pavan Park. I saw the following birds:
- Common Merganser (new for 2012)
- Canada Goose
- Tree Swallow (new for 2012)
- Magnolia Warbler (new for 2012)
- Bank Swallow (new for 2012)
- American Robin
- European Starling (new for 2012)
- Common Grackle (new for 2012)
This was my first warbler for 2012.
Then I combined birding with my coulee walk, hoping to see another warbler. No such luck. This time I took binoculars but no camera. I did see the following birds:
- White-crowned Sparrow (new for 2012)
- Canada Goose
- Gray Catbird (new for 2012)
- House Wren (new for 2012)
- American Robin
- Redhead (new for 2012)
- Mallard
- Yellow-headed Blackbird (new for 2012)
- Red-winged Blackbird (new for 2012)
When I returned home I entered both reports into the eBird website. That brings my total number of Alberta species to 27 for this year. Still pretty low, but better than a couple of days ago.