Leaders: Adehl Schwaderer, Brittany Welsh and CMBO volunteers, staff, family, and friends
Temp: 53°F
Winds: N mph
Weather Conditions: clear
The Big Sip was CMBO’s version of the Big Sit, an international birding event started by the New Haven Bird Club. During the Big Sit, individuals or teams compete to identify as many species as possible within 24 hours and all observations must be made from within a circle of 17 feet in diameter. Our Big Sip took place on October 9th at Natali Vineyards. Over the course of 6 hours, we identified 49 species! Below is the eBird list of all the species we saw during the Big Sip.
49 species
| Species | Count |
| Wood Duck | 3 |
| Mallard | 1 |
| Mourning Dove | 15 |
| Common Nighthawk | 1 |
| Laughing Gull | 2 |
| Herring Gull | 4 |
| Double-crested Cormorant | 2 |
| Snowy Egret | 1 |
| Black Vulture | 1 |
| Turkey Vulture | 20 |
| Golden Eagle | 1 |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | 4 |
| Cooper’s Hawk | 5 |
| Bald Eagle | 6 |
| Red-tailed Hawk | 6 |
| Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | 1 |
| Red-bellied Woodpecker | 2 |
| Downy Woodpecker | 1 |
| Northern Flicker | 26 |
| American Kestrel | 2 |
| Merlin | 2 |
| Eastern Wood-Pewee | 1 |
| Eastern Phoebe | 14 |
| Blue Jay | 21 |
| American Crow | 15 |
| Tree Swallow | 3 |
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 1 |
| House Wren | 1 |
| Carolina Wren | 1 |
| European Starling | 7 |
| Gray Catbird | 1 |
| Northern Mockingbird | 6 |
| American Robin | 1 |
| Cedar Waxwing | 2 |
| American Goldfinch | 1 |
| Field Sparrow | 1 |
| Savannah Sparrow | 1 |
| Song Sparrow | 3 |
| Swamp Sparrow | 1 |
| Baltimore Oriole | 1 |
| Red-winged Blackbird | 270 |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | 5 |
| Common Grackle | 5 |
| Boat-tailed Grackle | 1 |
| Orange-crowned Warbler | 1 |
| Palm Warbler | 19 |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler | 6 |
| Prairie Warbler | 1 |
| Northern Cardinal | 2 |
