It's hard to designate one highlight on a walk like today's. Scoped-while-singing birds included a Common Yellowthroat and an Indigo Bunting, both looking pretty incredible in the morning light at the top of trees. A young Black-crowned Night-Heron perched along the pond edge. A less common highlight, heard while standing quietly and waiting for the elusive but singing Prothonotary Warbler to appear (which it never did), was the nest of a Downy Woodpecker. Soft but insistent chips drew our attention to a nest hole in a dead tree. Soon the adult male Downy Woodpecker we'd been hearing went to the hole with food. The gaping mouth of a young Downy could be seen reaching up for it. If you were on the walk, you may notice that there's a Mississippi Kite on the list below; that showed up right after the walk, when only two of the walk participants remained. Leaders: Kathy & Roger Horn, Karl Lukens, and Deb Payson.
51 species
Canada Goose 8
Mallard 4
Great Egret 1
Green Heron 2
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1
Glossy Ibis 1
Black Vulture 1
Turkey Vulture 3
Osprey 2
Mississippi Kite 1
Killdeer 2
Laughing Gull 5
Forster's Tern 4
Mourning Dove 5
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 3
Chimney Swift 3
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Downy Woodpecker 2
Great Crested Flycatcher 2
Eastern Kingbird 1
Red-eyed Vireo 1
Blue Jay 1
American Crow 3
Fish Crow 2
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1
Purple Martin 3
Tree Swallow 5
Barn Swallow 9
Carolina Chickadee 3
Tufted Titmouse 1
Carolina Wren 6
American Robin 5
Gray Catbird 3
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 6
Cedar Waxwing 2
Prothonotary Warbler 2
Common Yellowthroat 4
Blackpoll Warbler 1
Prairie Warbler 1
Yellow-breasted Chat 1
Field Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 8
Blue Grosbeak 4
Indigo Bunting 6
Red-winged Blackbird 8
Common Grackle 5
Brown-headed Cowbird 6
American Goldfinch 1
House Sparrow 3
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
