Las Vegas Wetlands Park 02/03/13

Another trip to the Wetlands Park today, this time with my sweetie in tow.  We walked around the perimeter of the park and didn't see much of anything for the first twenty minutes or so, other than a handful of Coots. 

We stopped at one of the wash overlooks and she got to see that there is a pretty good amount of water running down the wash right now.  We left there and started heading north when I saw this guy flying around in circles above us and was able to get a lot of shots.  This is a Northern Harrier and we saw three of them during the walk.

A little up, when we got to the bridge I saw this second Harrier sitting on a branch at a fork in wash.

From there it was just some of the same old birds having seen a few times before.  Saw about two dozen Coots, a dozen Mallards and a dozen Ring-necked Ducks.

Saw this Yellow-rumped Warbler, that appears to be a juvenile because I could only see the yellow on his backside.  Could be a female I guess.

Also saw this juvenile White-crowned Sparrow and this Snowy Egret.

The last bird we saw before getting back to the parking lot was this Northern Flicker.  Probably the same one I saw a few weeks ago out here.

A pretty good day for being just a spur of moment trip out there.

We are thinking of heading out to the Overton Wildlife Management Area tomorrow to see what kind of birds we can scare up.  I've been watching some of the lists coming in for this place over the past couple of weeks and looks like I could add quite a few to my life list.  Including a bald eagle?  Saw that on a list a week or so ago.  Should be fun.