Leaders: Bert Hixon, Pam Hubert, Ruth Bergstrom
Temp: 62° F
Winds: NNW 6 mph
Weather Conditions:
Highlights include the Swainson’s Hawk first reported at the Hawkwatch platform, nice variety of ducks, shorebirds and other raptors.
44 species
Species | Count |
Canada Goose | 8 |
Mute Swan | 20 |
Northern Shoveler | 12 |
Gadwall | 20 |
American Wigeon | 25 |
Mallard | 40 |
American Black Duck | 1 |
Northern Pintail | 12 |
Green-winged Teal | 60 |
Green-winged Teal photo by Ruth Bergstrom |
|
Black Scoter | 75 |
American Coot | 4 |
Short-billed Dowitcher | 6 |
Greater Yellowlegs | 3 |
Pectoral Sandpiper | 1 |
Pectoral Sandpiper photo by Ruth Bergstrom |
|
Ring-billed Gull | 4 |
American Herring Gull | 15 |
Great Black-backed Gull | 7 |
Forster’s Tern | 1 |
Double-crested Cormorant | 25 |
Little Blue Heron | 1 |
Snowy Egret | 4 |
Great Egret | 2 |
Great Blue Heron | 2 |
Black Vulture | 2 |
Turkey Vulture | 30 |
Sharp-shinned Hawk | 6 |
Cooper’s Hawk | 2 |
Northern Harrier | 2 |
Bald Eagle | 2 |
Swainson’s Hawk | 1 |
Swainson’s Hawk photo by Ruth Bergstrom |
|
Northern Flicker | 4 |
American Kestrel | 1 |
Merlin | 3 |
Blue Jay | 1 |
American Crow | 2 |
Carolina Chickadee | 1 |
Tree Swallow | 100 |
Carolina Wren | 2 |
Northern Mockingbird | 2 |
House Sparrow | 4 |
American Goldfinch | 1 |
Red-winged Blackbird | 50 |
Yellow-rumped Warbler | 8 |
Yellow-rumped Warbler photo by Ruth Bergstrom |
|
Northern Cardinal | 2 |