Bird Walk for All People - Thursday, September 25th, 2014

A dreary, drizzly day in the State Park made our British walkers feel right at home and didn't bother the birds. We started with a Rusty Blackbird at Bunker Pond, several juvenile Little Blue Herons, Blue-winged Teal, and Mallards. As we moved behind the dune we saw a Belted Kingfisher and Palm Warblers, Gadwalls, and a juvenile Snowy Egret. Moving through the wooded areas we had some large pockets of mixed flocks including all three mimids: Gray Catbirds, Brown Thrashers, and Northern Mockingbirds; American Goldfinches; Carolina Chickadees; Red-eyed Vireos; Common Yellowthroat and Yellow Warblers; and great looks at a beautiful, perched Red-tailed Hawk. Leaders: Chuck Slugg and Warren Cairo.
58 species

Canada Goose  20
Mute Swan  34
Gadwall  7
American Black Duck  1
Mallard  18
Blue-winged Teal  20
Northern Pintail  2
Green-winged Teal  6
Double-crested Cormorant  2
Great Blue Heron  2
Great Egret  2
Snowy Egret  2
Little Blue Heron  2
Green Heron  1
Osprey  2
Cooper's Hawk  1
Red-tailed Hawk  1
American Oystercatcher  5
Semipalmated Sandpiper  1
Laughing Gull  10
Ring-billed Gull  5
Herring Gull  7
Great Black-backed Gull  85
Common Tern  5
Royal Tern  4
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  4
Mourning Dove  10
Belted Kingfisher  2
Northern Flicker  2
Merlin  1
Peregrine Falcon  1
Eastern Phoebe  1
Red-eyed Vireo  6
Blue Jay  3     heard only
American Crow  7
Fish Crow  2
Tree Swallow  20
Carolina Chickadee  12
Tufted Titmouse  1     heard only
Carolina Wren  4     heard only
American Robin  4
Gray Catbird  25
Brown Thrasher  3
Northern Mockingbird  4
European Starling  8
Ovenbird  1
Common Yellowthroat  5
American Redstart  2
Yellow Warbler  4
Palm Warbler  3
Northern Cardinal  3
Blue Grosbeak  1
Indigo Bunting  1
Bobolink  6     hear only
Red-winged Blackbird  23
Rusty Blackbird  1     Right side of Bunker Pond on mudflat
by Bill Boyle and Tom Reed.
American Goldfinch  20
House Sparrow  3

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