We're six days into the winter "season" and I've already seen some great birds!
The Field Sparrow that I found in late November has been easy to see. Even after a light snowfall the bird continued to ignore my nearby feeder and eat seeds from the remaining grass.
I also managed to see the continuing adult male Summer Tanager:
The third great bird of the month was an adult Red-tailed Hawk! A new bird for me in Newfoundland. A species I spent a fair bit of time looking for in October & November during what exists of hawk migration here. I definitely wasn't expecting to come across one today:
Here are some other birds I've seen this week:
male Downy Woodpecker:
juvenile Common Merganser:
adult "kumlien's" Iceland Gull:
adult Common Loon still sporting most of its breeding plumage:
A small flock of White-winged Crossbills was feeding in some big spruce trees that were on a hill below where I was birding offering my best looks and photos ever of this species.
This photo stood out to me: a male White-winged Crossbill in a sea of cones
Probably one of my favourite photos I've ever taken
White-winged Crossbills continue to be very common all around the province.
This Gadwall flew in with a flock of wigeon (including the Eurasian Wigeon seen in this photo) and made a crash landing on the ice. After regaining their balance they stood up and looked around to make sure no one had seen them make that embarrassing landing!