Mud Lake Surprises

January 29, 2020

Bruce Di Labio had a great day at Mud Lake the day before, so we took a break from cleaning up Bruce's house and went over.

We first checked the east end by the creek where Bruce had seen a Winter Wren, but it was all quiet except for the Black-capped Chickadees.

Then we parked on Rowatt Ave and hiked into the BCA along icy trails.  We were looking for a Carolina Wren, but instead found a Brown Creeper!  A nice male Northern Cardinal was in the same location.

We decided to circle back by the lake trail.  Barbara had fun feeding a White-breasted Nuthatch.

 Bill checked a dead tree with his bins and spotted a suspicious bump - Eastern Screech Owl!  A second surprise.

So we did not see either wren, but we had two nice surprises.