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Higbee Beach Birding – October 4, 2024

Leaders (group 1): Mary Watkins, Bert Hixon, Bernie Hodgdon  

Leaders (group 2): Adehl Schwaderer, Jackie & Keith Parker, Chris Marks, Kristal Stahler, Barry Hershfeld  

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Sunny morning. Slight breeze. Lots of catbirds, flickers and Carolina wrens! Highlights included non- breeding black-bellied plovers, wood ducks in flight, non- breeding scarlet tanagers and rose-breasted grosbeak.  

Group 1  

 36 species   

Species  Count 
Wood Duck  5 
Mourning Dove  3 
Black-bellied Plover  2 
Ruddy Turnstone  1 
Herring Gull  6 
Great Black-backed Gull  12 
Forster’s Tern  1 
Royal Tern  3 
Double-crested Cormorant  3 
Turkey Vulture  1 
Osprey  4 
Sharp-shinned Hawk  3 
Bald Eagle  1 
Red-bellied Woodpecker  2 
Downy Woodpecker  4 
Northern Flicker  11 
Eastern Wood-Pewee  1 
Eastern Phoebe  1 
Red-eyed Vireo  5 
Blue Jay  35 
American Crow  1 
Carolina Chickadee  10 
Tufted Titmouse  1 
Carolina Wren  16 
European Starling  65 
Gray Catbird  8 
Brown Thrasher  1 
American Robin  1 
Red-winged Blackbird  24 
Common Grackle  3 
Common Yellowthroat  1 
American Redstart  2 
Northern Parula  2 
Scarlet Tanager  2 
Northern Cardinal  4 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  1 

 

 Group 2  

33 species  

Species  Count 
Northern Shoveler  1 
Herring Gull  1 
Common Loon  1 
Turkey Vulture  1 
Osprey  3 
Sharp-shinned Hawk  4 
Cooper’s Hawk  2 
Red-tailed Hawk  1 
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  1 
Red-bellied Woodpecker  2 
Downy Woodpecker  3 
Northern Flicker  30 
Merlin  3 
Eastern Phoebe  5 
White-eyed Vireo  1 
Red-eyed Vireo  1 
Blue Jay  45 
American Crow  3 
Carolina Chickadee  3 
Tufted Titmouse  1 
Tree Swallow  9 
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  1 
Carolina Wren  4 
European Starling  16 
Gray Catbird  9 
Brown Thrasher  4 
Northern Mockingbird  5 
Red-winged Blackbird  3 
Black-and-white Warbler  1 
Common Yellowthroat  1 
American Redstart  2 
Northern Cardinal  3 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  2 
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