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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