Higbee Beach Birding - Friday, May 12th, 2017

Group 1: Leaders: David La Puma, Catherine Busch, & Roger Horn.
37 species

Double-crested Cormorant  28
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  1
Snowy Egret  3
Osprey  2
Bald Eagle  2
Red-tailed Hawk  2
American Oystercatcher  1
Dunlin  4
Purple Sandpiper  1
Laughing Gull  18
Herring Gull (American)  6
Forster's Tern  2
Mourning Dove  4
Yellow-billed Cuckoo  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Great Crested Flycatcher  2
Eastern Kingbird  6
White-eyed Vireo  2
Red-eyed Vireo  1
Blue Jay  3
Fish Crow  6
Barn Swallow  2
Carolina Chickadee  1
Carolina Wren  2
Gray Catbird  1
European Starling  2
Common Yellowthroat  1
Prairie Warbler  2
White-throated Sparrow  2
Eastern Towhee  1
Northern Cardinal  4
Indigo Bunting  3
Red-winged Blackbird  8
Common Grackle  5
Brown-headed Cowbird  3
Orchard Oriole  2

Group 2: Leaders: Kathy Horn, Chris Marks, & Bert Hixon.
Number of Taxa: 46

3 Canada Goose
6 Double-crested Cormorant
1 Great Egret
4 Snowy Egret
1 Black Vulture
2 Turkey Vulture
2 Osprey (carolinensis)
2 Bald Eagle
5 Laughing Gull
2 Herring Gull (American)
1 Great Black-backed Gull
3 Forster's Tern
5 Mourning Dove
1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2 Chimney Swift
1 Red-bellied Woodpecker
1 Eastern Wood-Pewee
3 Great Crested Flycatcher
16 Eastern Kingbird
2 White-eyed Vireo
1 Red-eyed Vireo
2 Blue Jay
1 American Crow
5 Fish Crow
1 Purple Martin
3 Barn Swallow (American)
2 Carolina Chickadee
2 Tufted Titmouse
9 Carolina Wren
1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
4 American Robin
2 Gray Catbird
3 European Starling
4 Common Yellowthroat
1 Yellow Warbler
3 Prairie Warbler
1 Chipping Sparrow
4 Field Sparrow
2 White-throated Sparrow
1 Song Sparrow
5 Northern Cardinal
5 Indigo Bunting
2 Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)
3 Common Grackle (Purple)
4 Orchard Oriole
2 American Goldfinch