E-Z Birding - Tuesday, June 2nd, 2015

If you didn't have close-focusing binoculars, you wouldn't have been able to focus on the male Blue Grosbeak without backing up. It fed on the grass tops for several minutes before flying down and landing in the path next to a male Indigo Bunting for a great comparison. A Pine Warbler startled us with it's loud call directly overhead as we were focusing on the Cedar Waxwings that kept chasing each other through the cedars. We also had an interesting discussion about poison ivy which is a prominent plant throughout the area. Not everyone recognizes the leaf pattern or understands that it's the oily resin of the plant that causes the itchy skin rash. Touching the plant - alive or dead - or contact with the oil from gardening tools, clothes or pets, can produce the rash. Leaders: Kathy & Roger Horn.
47 species

Canada Goose  32
Mute Swan  9
Wood Duck  1
American Black Duck  1
Mallard  8
Great Egret  1
Snowy Egret  1
Black-crowned Night-Heron  1
Glossy Ibis  2
Turkey Vulture  1
Osprey  2
American Oystercatcher  2
Killdeer  1
Laughing Gull  18
Herring Gull (American)  3
Least Tern  3
Forster's Tern  1
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  2
Mourning Dove  2
Yellow-billed Cuckoo  1
Great Crested Flycatcher  1
Fish Crow  1
Purple Martin  15
Tree Swallow  12
Barn Swallow  1
Carolina Chickadee  2
Carolina Wren  2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  1
American Robin  6
Gray Catbird  1
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  3
Cedar Waxwing  9
Common Yellowthroat  2
American Redstart  2
Yellow-throated Warbler  1
Yellow-breasted Chat  2
Northern Cardinal  4
Blue Grosbeak  2
Indigo Bunting  2
Red-winged Blackbird  10
Common Grackle  4
Brown-headed Cowbird  2
Orchard Oriole  1
House Finch  3
American Goldfinch  2
House Sparrow  1

This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)

Poison Ivy [Photo by Kathy Horn]