Starting 2022 off right with birding

I started 2022 off with a birding trip around west Little Rock on Sunday. It went pretty well 30 species spotted so far this year. Here’s a few of my favorites:

I also found four deer – one of which was a buck – that were not spooked by humans at all. For a moment, I thought they would walk right up to me.

Looking for ducks

Ruddy Duck
Ruddy Duck

Gadwall1
Gadwall Duck

I’ve finally added two more ducks to my list of photographed birds. I headed to Bayou Meto Wildlife Management Area’s Halowell Reservoir earlier this month to see what was there and found both of the above Ruddy and Gadwall ducks. I was also in luck for plenty of other bird sightings as well.

1-Loggerhead Shrike1
Loggerhead Shrike

3-American Kestrel1
American Kestrel

4-Eastern Meadowlark
Eastern Meadowlark

5-flowers

7-sky

8-great blue heron
Great Blue Heron

9Mallards
Mallards

10-Rusty blackbird1
Rusty Blackbird