Monday after ChristmasDecided to use this holiday day to add a life-bird to my list. A White-winged Scoter has been hanging out on a Resaca in San Benito for several weeks, but I haven’t got to it yet. An hour and a half to get there. Hundreds of ducks to sort through. Three hours looking. No Scoter. Drove home. A six hour effort altogether. Arrived home to learn that the San Benito White-winged Scoter was found dead this morning… Oops. Oh well. It was a nice drive through the country. I got lots of other birds including Snow Geese, Greater White-fronted Geese, Black-bellied Whistling Ducks, Wood Ducks, Canvasbacks, Anhingas, White-tailed Kites, a Red-shouldered Hawk, a Caspian Tern, a Ringed Kingfisher, and Tropical Kingbirds. Not a bad day. Here is an American Kestrel and a White-tailed Kite:
