Breeding Birds at the Rea Farm - Saturday, June 8th, 2013

Just the breeding birds and other usual suspects this morning. Good scope views of Indigo Bunting and Blue Grosbeak as well as Black-crowned Night-Heron. Interesting sighting was an adult and a juvenile Great Horned Owl being mobbed by American Crows seen in the scope. Leaders: Karl Lukens, Chuck Slugg, Warren Cairo, and Hugh Simmons.
36 species

Mallard  4
Great Egret  1
Black-crowned Night-Heron  1
Black Vulture  1
Turkey Vulture  2
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Killdeer  3
Laughing Gull  5
Great Black-backed Gull  1
Forster's Tern  2
Rock Pigeon  3
Mourning Dove  5
Yellow-billed Cuckoo  1     heard
Great Horned Owl  2     ad. & juv. mobbed by crows
Chimney Swift  2
Great Crested Flycatcher  3
Eastern Kingbird  2
White-eyed Vireo  1     heard
Red-eyed Vireo  1     heard
Blue Jay  1
American Crow  10
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  1
Barn Swallow  2
Tufted Titmouse  1
House Wren  2     heard
Carolina Wren  1     heard
Common Yellowthroat  2
Yellow-breasted Chat  1     heard
Northern Cardinal  6
Blue Grosbeak  2
Indigo Bunting  6
Red-winged Blackbird  5
Common Grackle  2
Brown-headed Cowbird  5
House Finch  75
House Sparrow  3

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Black-crowned Night-Heron [Photo by Karl Lukens]