Leaders: Kathy Horn, Roger Horn, Bernie Hodgdon
Temp: 39° F
Winds: NNE 5 mph
Weather Conditions: cloudy
The birds were a little hunkered down at first in this morning’s gray chill, but they soon warmed up enough to come out to feed. Palm Warblers and sparrows love the Beanery’s weedy fields. We had both Eastern Palms, the ones that breed east of Ontario, Canada and Western Palm Warblers, the ones that breed in the larger area west of Ontario. Song Sparrows and Savannah Sparrows perched up to be well seen but the male Wood Duck in the pond was much less cooperative, quickly gliding out of sight both times we glimpsed it. An Eastern Meadowlark flew over a field, then over our heads as we observed its distinctive shape and flight pattern.
47 species
| Species | Count |
| Canada Goose | 45 |
| Mute Swan | 1 |
| Wood Duck | 1 |
| Mallard | 125 |
| American Black Duck | 3 |
| Mourning Dove | 12 |
| Killdeer | 1 |
| Herring Gull (American) | 6 |
| Great Black-backed Gull | 2 |
| Double-crested Cormorant | 24 |
| Great Blue Heron (Great Blue) | 1 |
| Great Egret | 1 |
| Black Vulture | 5 |
| Turkey Vulture | 6 |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk (Northern) | 1 |
| Cooper’s Hawk | 1 |
| Red-tailed Hawk | 2 |
| Red-bellied Woodpecker | 3 |
| Downy Woodpecker (Eastern) | 1 |
| Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) | 3 |
| Eastern Phoebe | 1 |
| Blue Jay | 4 |
| American Crow | 15 |
| Carolina Chickadee | 2 |
| Golden-crowned Kinglet | 1 |
| Red-breasted Nuthatch | 1 |
| Carolina Wren (Northern) | 8 |
| European Starling | 22 |
| Gray Catbird | 2 |
| Brown Thrasher | 1 |
| Northern Mockingbird | 5 |
| Eastern Bluebird | 2 |
| Hermit Thrush | 2 |
| American Robin | 600 |
| House Finch | 2 |
| American Goldfinch | 2 |
| White-throated Sparrow | 11 |
| Savannah Sparrow (Savannah) | 3 |
| Song Sparrow | 12 |
| Swamp Sparrow | 2 |
| Eastern Towhee | 1 |
| Eastern Meadowlark (Eastern) | 1 |
| Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged) | 320 |
| Common Grackle | 15 |
| Palm Warbler (Western) | 2 |
| Palm Warbler (Yellow) | 1 |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) | 12 |
| Northern Cardinal | 3 |
