January 30, 2013: Buffalo Warm Spell

January 26, 2013: Southern Ontario Birding

Started out today driving up the Niagara River Parkway in Ontario

 Bufflehead flying

 Above and Below:  Common Mergansers

 Red-Breasted Merganser

 Bonaparte's Gull

 Hooded Mergansers

 Wood Duck

 Red-Tailed Hawk

 Domestic Muscovy Ducks

 Above and Below:  Tundra Swan

Then we traveled to St. Catherine's for some nice shots of the Snowy Owl that is wintering there

January 21, 2013: Common Redpoll at Home Birdfeeder

January 19, 2013: Birding Beaver Island State Park

A few birds along the Buffalo Waterfront and Niagara River:

 Bonaparte's Gulls

Buffleheads

January 13, 2012: Buffalo Warm Spell

Very warm today for January 13 in Buffalo!

January 12, 2013: Syracuse Zoo

We enjoyed the unseasonably warm weather today with a day trip to the Syracuse Zoo

First some acquatic scenes from the zoo:

Birds at the zoo:

 Kookabura

 Swimming Penguin

 Above and Below: Caspian Tern

 A shiny pigeon (not sure what kind)

 not sure what duck this is

 Above and Below: Ferruginous Duck

 American Flamingo

 Various Fowl

 Common Goldeneye

 Kookabura

 Military Macaw

 Close up of a Peacock

 Smew

 Snow Goose

 Tundra Swan

 Above and Below:  Wood Duck

Various mammals at the zoo:

 Donkey

 Lion

Bighorn Sheep