Leaders: Kathy Horn, Roger Horn, Bernie Hodgdon, Barry Hershfeld
Temp: 58°F
Winds: N 15 mph
Weather Conditions: cloudy
Today was one of those days we wait for all year. There were more birds than you could get your bins on and it was a great mix of birds. Warblers, kinglets, jays, flickers, sharpies, coops and sparrows, they were all flying about. Perhaps the most striking sighting though was the group of about 15 Wood Ducks, many of them males in beautiful plumage that, surprisingly, did not flush or immediately glide out of view on the large pond; what a sight they made in the morning sun!
59 species
Species | Count |
Canada Goose | 14 |
Mute Swan | 2 |
Wood Duck | 15 |
Mallard | 2 |
Mourning Dove | 22 |
Yellow-billed Cuckoo | 1 |
Great Black-backed Gull | 1 |
Great Egret | 2 |
Black Vulture | 12 |
Turkey Vulture | 19 |
Sharp-shinned Hawk | 5 |
Cooper’s Hawk | 2 |
Bald Eagle | 1 |
Red-shouldered Hawk | 1 |
Belted Kingfisher | 1 |
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | 2 |
Red-bellied Woodpecker | 2 |
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern) | 1 |
Hairy Woodpecker | 1 |
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) | 80 |
Eastern Phoebe | 9 |
Eastern Kingbird | 1 |
Red-eyed Vireo | 6 |
Blue Jay | 40 |
American Crow | 13 |
Carolina Chickadee | 1 |
Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 7 |
Ruby-crowned Kinglet photo by Kathy Horn |
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Golden-crowned Kinglet | 3 |
Red-breasted Nuthatch | 5 |
White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern) | 1 |
Carolina Wren | 7 |
European Starling | 106 |
Gray Catbird | 11 |
Brown Thrasher | 5 |
Northern Mockingbird | 5 |
American Robin | 35 |
Purple Finch (Eastern) | 1 |
American Goldfinch | 4 |
Field Sparrow | 3 |
White-crowned Sparrow | 1 |
White-throated Sparrow | 14 |
Savannah Sparrow (Savannah) | 1 |
Song Sparrow | 10 |
Swamp Sparrow | 4 |
Eastern Towhee | 2 |
Bobolink | 2 |
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged) | 10 |
Brown-headed Cowbird | 5 |
Common Grackle | 1 |
Northern Waterthrush | 1 |
Black-and-white Warbler | 3 |
Common Yellowthroat | 16 |
American Redstart | 4 |
Northern Parula | 1 |
Blackpoll Warbler | 1 |
Black-throated Blue Warbler | 2 |
Palm Warbler (Western) | 14 |
Palm Warbler (Yellow) | 2 |
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) | 125 |
Northern Cardinal | 3 |