Leaders: Bert Hixon, Pam Hubert, Ruth Bergstrom
Temp: 55° F
Winds: N 9 mph
Weather Conditions: Sunny
Nice views of a wide variety of ducks. Careful looks through kettles of Turkey Vultures revealed a good assortment of hawks. Highlights include Common Gallinule, Eurasian Wigeon, Wilson’s Snipe and Baltimore Oriole.
62 species
Species | Count |
Canada Goose | 8 |
Mute Swan | 25 |
Blue-winged Teal | 4 |
Northern Shoveler | 12 |
Gadwall | 38 |
Eurasian Wigeon | 1 |
American Wigeon | 36 |
Mallard | 50 |
American Black Duck | 4 |
Northern Pintail | 25 |
Green-winged Teal | 55 |
Surf Scoter | 12 |
Black Scoter | 75 |
Mourning Dove | 2 |
Common Gallinule | 1 |
American Coot | 3 |
Killdeer | 2 |
Long-billed Dowitcher | 5 |
Wilson’s Snipe | 1 |
Greater Yellowlegs | 8 |
Laughing Gull | 4 |
Ring-billed Gull | 6 |
American Herring Gull | 8 |
Great Black-backed Gull | 12 |
Forster’s Tern | 2 |
Northern Gannet | 4 |
Double-crested Cormorant | 3 |
Little Blue Heron | 1 |
Snowy Egret | 4 |
Great Egret | 1 |
Great Blue Heron | 1 |
Turkey Vulture | 24 |
Sharp-shinned Hawk | 4 |
Cooper’s Hawk | 1 |
Bald Eagle | 1 |
Broad-winged Hawk | 1 |
Red-shouldered Hawk | 1 |
Red-tailed Hawk | 1 |
Downy Woodpecker | 1 |
Northern Flicker | 1 |
Blue Jay | 2 |
American Crow | 2 |
Carolina Chickadee | 1 |
Tree Swallow | 20 |
Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 2 |
Carolina Wren | 3 |
Northern Mockingbird | 3 |
Eastern Bluebird | 1 |
Hermit Thrush | 1 |
American Robin | 10 |
Cedar Waxwing | 3 |
House Sparrow | 3 |
House Finch | 1 |
American Goldfinch | 20 |
Dark-eyed Junco | 1 |
White-throated Sparrow | 10 |
Song Sparrow | 4 |
Swamp Sparrow | 1 |
Baltimore Oriole | 1 |
Red-winged Blackbird | 200 |
Yellow-rumped Warbler | 36 |
Northern Cardinal | 2 |