Higbee Beach Birding - Friday, August 25th, 2017

Along with many great birds today, the highlights were an Olive-sided Flycatcher and long looks at a Yellow-billed Cuckoo eating caterpillars. Leaders: David La Puma, Kathy Horn, Chris Marks, Roger Horn & Catherine Busch.
45 species (+1 other taxa)

Common Loon  1
Double-crested Cormorant  2
Osprey  1
Semipalmated Plover  3
Least Sandpiper  3
Laughing Gull  22
Herring Gull (American)  14
Great Black-backed Gull  4
Forster's Tern  3
Mourning Dove  20
Yellow-billed Cuckoo  2
Chimney Swift  8
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  12
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Downy Woodpecker  1
Olive-sided Flycatcher  1
Alder/Willow Flycatcher (Traill's Flycatcher)  1
Least Flycatcher  1
Great Crested Flycatcher  3
Eastern Kingbird  202
Red-eyed Vireo  5
Blue Jay  4
Fish Crow  2
Tree Swallow  2
Barn Swallow  7
Carolina Chickadee  2
Tufted Titmouse  3
Carolina Wren  6
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  5
Veery  1
American Robin  4
Gray Catbird  3
Cedar Waxwing  35
Black-and-white Warbler  1
American Redstart  30
Yellow Warbler  12
Song Sparrow  2
Northern Cardinal  6
Blue Grosbeak  6
Indigo Bunting  1
Bobolink  120
Baltimore Oriole  12
Red-winged Blackbird  72
Common Grackle  9
House Finch  5
American Goldfinch  6

This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)

Olive-sided Flycatcher [Photo by Roger Horn]

Yellow-billed Cuckoo [Photo by Roger Horn]

Ruby-throated Hummingbird [Photo by Roger Horn]

Blue Grosbeak [Photo by Roger Horn]