Highlights of this week's walk were birds in flight, especially the estimated 10,000 Tree Swallows swirling continuously overhead sometime flying right over our heads as they reacted to the many raptors hunting in the area--Sharp-shinned and Cooper's Hawks, Merlin, and Peregrine. Leaders: Catherine Busch, Chris Marks, and Warren Cairo.
33 species
Canada Goose 12
Mute Swan 14
American Wigeon 6
Mallard 18
Blue-winged Teal 2
Ruddy Duck 5
Double-crested Cormorant 75
Great Blue Heron 2
Great Egret 2
Snowy Egret 1
Turkey Vulture 5
Osprey 3
Northern Harrier 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 26
Cooper's Hawk 6
Bald Eagle 1
Laughing Gull 12
Herring Gull (American) 6
Great Black-backed Gull 20
Caspian Tern 3
Forster's Tern 24
Mourning Dove 3
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 3
Merlin 2
Peregrine Falcon 1
Blue Jay 3
American Crow 4
Tree Swallow 10000 Swarming over dunes and Bunker Pond. Conservative estimate.
Carolina Chickadee 3
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Gray Catbird 1
Palm Warbler (Western) 1
American Goldfinch 5
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
