Fall Migrants at The Rea Farm - Saturday, November 7th, 2015

We had two very popular sightings at the Rea Farm this morning. First a Vesper Sparrow, after playing hard to get in the grasses and phrags along a field edge, settled down in the bare dirt and proceeded to feed on the fallen seed there for quite some time. Later, in an (improved) repeat performance of last week's walk, mobbing crows chased a Great Horned Owl from one side of the field to the other, to the great delight of us all. Leaders: Kathy & Roger Horn, Karl Lukens, Deb Payson, and Catherine Busch.
41 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  15
Mute Swan  2
Gadwall  2
Mallard  11
Double-crested Cormorant  41
Turkey Vulture  1
Sharp-shinned Hawk  1
Cooper's Hawk  1
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Herring Gull (American)  3
Great Black-backed Gull  3
Mourning Dove  19
Great Horned Owl  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  4
Downy Woodpecker  3
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  4
Blue Jay  3
American Crow  9
Carolina Chickadee  2
Carolina Wren  4
Golden-crowned Kinglet  1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1
American Robin  48
Gray Catbird  3
Brown Thrasher  1
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  18
Cedar Waxwing  2
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  15
Field Sparrow  4
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)  2
White-crowned Sparrow  1
White-throated Sparrow  3
Vesper Sparrow  1
Savannah Sparrow  9
Song Sparrow  4
Swamp Sparrow  4
Northern Cardinal  4
Red-winged Blackbird  75
Common Grackle  35
blackbird sp.  50
American Goldfinch  6

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

Vesper Sparrow [Photo by Roger Horn]