Leaders: Kathy & Roger Horn, Alan Crawford, Bernie Hodgdon, Pam Hubert
Temp: 68° F
Winds: SE 9 mph
Weather Conditions: cloudy
The birding highlight this morning was seeing four Cooper’s Hawks interacting for several minutes from the parking lot at CHC WMA. We couldn’t tell exactly what they were doing, besides occasionally chasing each other. They’d fly from the ground to the trees to the top of the dirt mound, and sometimes seemed interested in something behind a hedge. We had good looks at an adult and a juvenile Bald Eagle and Gray Catbird, Blue Jay and Northern Flicker migration clearly is underway.
30 species
| Species | Count |
| Wood Duck | 4 |
| Mallard | 5 |
| Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) | 4 |
| Mourning Dove | 3 |
| Herring Gull (American) | 1 |
| Royal Tern | 1 |
| Great Egret | 1 |
| Turkey Vulture | 1 |
| Osprey (carolinensis) | 4 |
| Cooper’s Hawk | 6 |
| Bald Eagle | 2 |
| Belted Kingfisher | 1 |
| Red-bellied Woodpecker | 6 |
| Downy Woodpecker (Eastern) | 1 |
| Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) | 3 |
| Peregrine Falcon | 1 |
| Red-eyed Vireo | 1 |
| Blue Jay | 15 |
| Fish Crow | 1 |
| Carolina Chickadee | 5 |
| Tufted Titmouse | 1 |
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 1 |
| Carolina Wren | 9 |
| European Starling | 6 |
| Gray Catbird | 9 |
| American Robin | 7 |
| Baltimore Oriole | 1 |
| Common Grackle | 4 |
| American Redstart | 1 |
| Northern Cardinal | 5 |
