We went to JBWR this morning. I expected the trails to be a little icy 4 days after the big storm, but I didn't expect the West Pond (and from what I could see from across the street, the East Pond too) to be completely frozen. Hence--no birds. At least on the pond.
Out in the bay there were Brant, and on the spit off Terrapin Trail there were about 100 Snow Geese, including 1 blue morph which was a beauty. Lots of sparrows, mostly white-throated.
And the trail was only plowed a short distance. After about a 1/4 of mile the packed down snow and ice stopped and foot-deep snow started. Neither of us felt like tramping a mile and half through that when it was pretty obvious we weren't going to see a whole lot more than we'd already seen.
Still it was good to tromp through the snow for a while without having to deal with slush and slippery sidewalks.
West Pond
Observation date: 12/24/09
Number of species: 16
Snow Goose 100
Brant 50
Canada Goose 6
American Black Duck 2
Mallard 1
Ring-billed Gull 4
Herring Gull 2
American Crow 9
Hermit Thrush 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2
Fox Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 4
White-throated Sparrow 25
Dark-eyed Junco 2
Northern Cardinal 2
House Finch 6
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