Higbee Beach Birding - Friday, August 30th, 2013

An overcast day with little movement of migrants, we nonetheless turned up some interesting birds. Highlights included one each of Veery, Scarlet Tanager, Blue-winged Warbler, and scope views of perched Ruby-throated Hummingbirds. Leaders: Mike Crewe, Chris Marks, Catherine Busch, Warren Cairo, and Shaun Bamford.
48 species (+1 other taxa)

Turkey Vulture  1
Osprey  1
Ruddy Turnstone  3
Sanderling  7
Laughing Gull  X
Ring-billed Gull  1
Herring Gull  X
Great Black-backed Gull  1
Royal Tern  1
Mourning Dove  10
Chimney Swift  1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  4
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Downy Woodpecker  1
Hairy Woodpecker  2
Eastern Wood-Pewee  1
Alder/Willow Flycatcher (Traill's Flycatcher)  1
Great Crested Flycatcher  3
Eastern Kingbird  16
White-eyed Vireo  4
Red-eyed Vireo  3
Blue Jay  X
American Crow  1
Tree Swallow  20
Barn Swallow  6
Carolina Chickadee  4
Carolina Wren  5
Veery  1
American Robin  1
Gray Catbird  3
Northern Mockingbird  1
Brown Thrasher  1
Cedar Waxwing  X
Blue-winged Warbler  1
Black-and-white Warbler  4
Common Yellowthroat  2
American Redstart  12
Blackburnian Warbler  1  seen by leaders only
Yellow Warbler  1
Prairie Warbler  4
Field Sparrow  2
Scarlet Tanager  1
Northern Cardinal  3
Indigo Bunting  1
Bobolink  63
Red-winged Blackbird  95
Common Grackle  10
Brown-headed Cowbird  2
American Goldfinch  2

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