Cox Hall Creek WMA Bird Walk - Sunday, August 24th, 2014

"I've never seen so many warblers at one time!" said one of the participants after today's Cox Hall Creek walk. And they were streaming through, picking insects from leaves, circling limbs, probing clumps of hanging dead leaves. Early fall migrant warblers, traveling in mixed flocks with local chickadees and titmice, were busy stocking up on the fuel they'll need for their long journey south. This week we saw Chestnut-sided, Yellow, Blue-winged, Worm-eating, Blackburnian, Black-and-white, and Prairie Warblers, and American Redstarts. It's good to have mornings like this since they really gives us a sense of the wave-like progression of migration. You're not going to see Yellow-rump Warblers in August and you're not going to see Worm-eating Warblers in October. Field marks are important to learn but so are aspects of bird status and distribution that help you know what's expected at a given time and what's very unlikely. Join us for the next wave!  Leaders: Kathy & Roger Horn, Cindy & Shaun Bamford, Joe Demko, and Steve Weis.
55 species (+1 other taxa)

Great Blue Heron  1
Green Heron  1
Turkey Vulture  1
Osprey  4
Bald Eagle  1
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Laughing Gull  10
Herring Gull (American)  1
Mourning Dove  6
Yellow-billed Cuckoo  1
Chimney Swift  1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  6
Belted Kingfisher  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  5
Downy Woodpecker  2
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  8
Eastern Wood-Pewee  4
Great Crested Flycatcher  1
Eastern Kingbird  12
White-eyed Vireo  2
Red-eyed Vireo  2
Blue Jay  2
crow sp.  2
Purple Martin  12
Tree Swallow  12
Barn Swallow  4
Carolina Chickadee  6
Tufted Titmouse  9
White-breasted Nuthatch  2
Carolina Wren  6
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  6
Eastern Bluebird  5     Not a high number for this breeding site
American Robin  3
Gray Catbird  4
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  5
Cedar Waxwing  7
Worm-eating Warbler  1
Blue-winged Warbler  2
Black-and-white Warbler  10
American Redstart  14
Blackburnian Warbler  2
Yellow Warbler  3
Chestnut-sided Warbler  1
Prairie Warbler  1
Chipping Sparrow  18
Song Sparrow  1
Northern Cardinal  8
Blue Grosbeak  3
Indigo Bunting  2
Bobolink  1
Red-winged Blackbird  12
Common Grackle  2
Baltimore Oriole  9
House Finch  12
American Goldfinch  5

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