Cox Hall Creek WMA is not a bad place to bird when the wind is whipping around at 30 mph, as it was today. The Wood Ducks didn't hear us coming, and birds that found a place out of the wind and in the sun sat still to be viewed. So it was for a GORGEOUS male Purple Finch and an equally gorgeous adult White-crowned Sparrow. Purple Finches, one of the irruptive species that appear here in years of poor food supplies further north, have been coming through in good numbers of late; the unique raspberry color of the male on the back, wings and flanks and the bold dark brown and white head pattern on the female separate them from our resident house finches. Leaders: Kathy & Roger Horn, Joe Demko, and Deb Payson.
43 species
Wood Duck 8
Mallard 1
Common Loon 1
Double-crested Cormorant 9
Great Blue Heron 2
Turkey Vulture 4
Osprey 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 3
Cooper's Hawk 1
Bald Eagle 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
American Woodcock 1
Herring Gull (American) 1
Great Black-backed Gull 1
Mourning Dove 12
Red-bellied Woodpecker 3
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 6
Eastern Phoebe 2
Blue Jay 9
American Crow 5
Carolina Chickadee 4
Tufted Titmouse 14
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
White-breasted Nuthatch 3
Carolina Wren 3
Golden-crowned Kinglet 3
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2
Eastern Bluebird 22
American Robin 25
Palm Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 9
Eastern Towhee 2
Field Sparrow 2
Song Sparrow 4
Swamp Sparrow 14
White-throated Sparrow 12
White-crowned Sparrow 1
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 11
Northern Cardinal 5
Red-winged Blackbird 30
House Finch 5
Purple Finch 2
American Goldfinch 20
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