Higbee Beach Bird Walk - Friday, March 29th, 2013

Good birding for an early in the season walk. A brief look at the bay and canal jetty provided us with Northern Gannets, Black Scoters, various Gulls, and 5 Great Cormorants flying by and landing for off. A number of White throated Sparrows and Purple Finches feeding high on the aspen flowers at the parking lot, and also of interest were 3 Brown Thrashers, and several Eastern Towhees. Eastern Phoebes and Eastern Bluebirds were in the 3rd field as well as other fields. Leaders: Mike Crewe, Karl Lukens, Catherine Busch, and Chris Marks.
38 species

Canada Goose  2
Mallard  1
Black Scoter  2
Red-breasted Merganser  1
Wild Turkey  13   seen in field before parking lot before the walk
Red-throated Loon  1
Northern Gannet  7
Double-crested Cormorant  2
Great Cormorant  5
Turkey Vulture  3
Herring Gull  5
Great Black-backed Gull  2
Mourning Dove  5
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Downy Woodpecker  2
Hairy Woodpecker  1     heard
Northern Flicker  1
Eastern Phoebe  8
Blue Jay  5
American Crow  3
Fish Crow  1     heard
Carolina Chickadee  3
Carolina Wren  5
Eastern Bluebird  7
American Robin  10
Gray Catbird  1
Brown Thrasher  3
European Starling  20
Eastern Towhee  4
Field Sparrow  4
Fox Sparrow  2
Song Sparrow  6
White-throated Sparrow  10
Northern Cardinal  5
Red-winged Blackbird  5
Common Grackle  5
Brown-headed Cowbird  20
Purple Finch  5
House Finch  2

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Wild Turkey [Photo by Karl Lukens]

Wild Turkey display [Photo by Karl Lukens]