Fall Migrants at the Rea Farm - Saturday, November 8th, 2014

We saw all the likely warblers for a November morning at the Rea Farm today - Yellow-rumped (of course), Palm, Common Yellowthroat, and the much less common Orange-crowned Warbler. The Orange-crowned was a 'lifer' for a few members of the group and it's a bird that, if you're unfamiliar with it, is easily overlooked. At a glance, you might mistake it for Tennessee or a Yellow Warbler. But Orange-crowned Warblers always show yellowish undertail coverts and have a thin dark tail, a pale supercilium, faint eyeline and a split eyering, and often show a pale area at the bend in the wing. Late fall migrants, they are here in peak numbers now and some may overwinter in the area.  Leaders: Kathy & Roger Horn, and Deb Payson.
51 species

Canada Goose  22
Gadwall  8
Mallard  14
Double-crested Cormorant  26
Black Vulture  2
Turkey Vulture  9
Cooper's Hawk  1
Bald Eagle  1
Red-shouldered Hawk  1
Killdeer  1
Herring Gull (American)  1
Mourning Dove  6
Belted Kingfisher  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Downy Woodpecker  3
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  2
Eastern Phoebe  2
Blue Jay  15
American Crow  5
Fish Crow  16
Tree Swallow  3
Carolina Chickadee  2
Tufted Titmouse  1
Brown Creeper  1
Carolina Wren  5
Golden-crowned Kinglet  2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  2
Eastern Bluebird  18
Hermit Thrush  4
American Robin  150
Gray Catbird  3
Brown Thrasher  3
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  70
Cedar Waxwing  11
Orange-crowned Warbler  1
Common Yellowthroat  1
Palm Warbler  2
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  3
Field Sparrow  1
Vesper Sparrow  3
Savannah Sparrow  4
Song Sparrow  8
Swamp Sparrow  13
White-throated Sparrow  7
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)  5
Northern Cardinal  4
Red-winged Blackbird  75
Common Grackle  9
Purple Finch  2
American Goldfinch  21

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