Spring Migrants at The Rea Farm - Saturday, April 16, 2016

"Wet woods" is an abundant habitat type at the Rea Farm and is preferred habitat for Prothonotary warblers (which should be in any day now), winter wrens, and waterthrush - none of which were seen or heard this morning. Rusty Blackbirds, however, are also wet woods birds and highly sought since their population has declined by 85% since 1966. They were at the Beanery this morning, in good view and calling. Though some Yellow-rumped Warblers spend the winter in Cape May, their numbers have increased of late and we often had stereo "Yump" chips surrounding us, as well as occasional songs. Leaders: Kathy Horn, Roger Horn, Karl Lukens, and Michael McCabe.
36 species

Canada Goose  12
Mallard  5
Blue-winged Teal  2
Black Vulture  6
Turkey Vulture  4
Osprey  4
Sharp-shinned Hawk  1
Killdeer  1
Laughing Gull  5
Mourning Dove  4
Red-bellied Woodpecker  3
Downy Woodpecker  6
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1
Blue Jay  2
American Crow  5
Fish Crow  8
Barn Swallow  1
Carolina Chickadee  4
Tufted Titmouse  2
Carolina Wren  7
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  7
American Robin  14
Gray Catbird  2
Brown Thrasher  2
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  12
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  15
White-throated Sparrow  14
Song Sparrow  2
Eastern Towhee  1
Northern Cardinal  9
Red-winged Blackbird  18
Rusty Blackbird  12     Actual count seen well
Common Grackle  6
Brown-headed Cowbird  10
American Goldfinch  1

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

Carolina Wren [Photo by Roger Horn]