Leaders: Kathy Horn, Roger Horn, Bernie Hodgdon
Temp: 54°F
Winds: NW 12 mph
Weather Conditions: cloudy
The Beanery provided some surprises on this morning’s field trip. We watched a near-adult Bald Eagle chase an Osprey, hoping to make it drop its fish; they repeatedly wheeled across the sky together before the eagle gave up and drifted away. We also had some interesting sparrows popping up and down along a close fence row. A first-winter White-crowned Sparrow gave us great views as it perched on top of the fence and a Savannah Sparrow, a Field and a Chipping Sparrow in juvenile plumage also perched up for comparisons. We initially called the Chipping Sparrow as a Clay-colored Sparrow; in juvenile plumage, the two can be difficult to distinguish. But the gray rump and pale lores were enough to confirm this bird as a streaky first-winter chipping sparrow.
60 species
Species | Count |
Canada Goose | 2 |
Mute Swan | 2 |
Mallard | 33 |
Mourning Dove | 18 |
Yellow-billed Cuckoo | 1 |
Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 5 |
Herring Gull | 2 |
Great Black-backed Gull | 4 |
Black Vulture | 2 |
Turkey Vulture | 2 |
Osprey (carolinensis) | 6 |
Osprey photo by Roger Horn |
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Osprey photo by Roger Horn |
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Osprey photo by Roger Horn |
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Osprey photo by Roger Horn |
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Cooper’s Hawk | 1 |
Bald Eagle | 3 |
Bald Eagle photo by Roger Horn |
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Bald Eagle photo by Roger Horn |
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Bald Eagle photo by Roger Horn |
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Bald Eagle photo by Roger Horn |
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Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | 1 |
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker photo by Kathy Horn |
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Red-bellied Woodpecker | 4 |
Downy Woodpecker | 2 |
Hairy Woodpecker | 1 |
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) | 37 |
American Kestrel | 1 |
Merlin | 1 |
Alder/Willow Flycatcher (Traill’s Flycatcher) | 1 |
Eastern Phoebe | 1 |
White-eyed Vireo | 3 |
Red-eyed Vireo | 13 |
Blue Jay | 3 |
American Crow | 2 |
Carolina Chickadee | 2 |
Tufted Titmouse | 1 |
Tree Swallow | 1 |
Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 2 |
Red-breasted Nuthatch | 4 |
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | 6 |
Carolina Wren | 9 |
European Starling | 33 |
Gray Catbird | 16 |
Brown Thrasher | 1 |
Northern Mockingbird | 7 |
Veery | 1 |
American Robin | 2 |
Cedar Waxwing | 20 |
American Goldfinch | 1 |
Chipping Sparrow | 1 |
Chipping Sparrow photo by Roger Horn |
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Field Sparrow | 1 |
White-crowned Sparrow | 1 |
White-crowned Sparrow photo by Roger Horn |
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White-crowned Sparrow photo by Roger Horn |
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White-crowned Sparrow photo by Kathy Horn |
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White-crowned Sparrow photo by Kathy Horn |
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Savannah Sparrow | 2 |
Savannah Sparrow photo by Roger Horn |
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Bobolink | 4 |
Baltimore Oriole | 1 |
Red-winged Blackbird | 65 |
Brown-headed Cowbird | 1 |
Common Grackle | 6 |
Black-and-white Warbler | 2 |
Tennessee Warbler | 1 |
Common Yellowthroat | 2 |
American Redstart | 1 |
Northern Parula | 4 |
Bay-breasted Warbler | 1 |
Bay-breasted Warbler photo by Roger Horn |
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Yellow Warbler | 3 |
Palm Warbler (Western) | 5 |
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) | 4 |
Northern Cardinal | 5 |
Indigo Bunting | 1 |