Exploring Cumberland - Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Despite wet weather and very thick gnats, we had a good showing of varied species. The end of Hansey Creek Road was a study of shorebirds!

Leaders: Shaun Bamford, Mary Watkins 
64 species

4 Canada Goose 
1 Ring-necked Pheasant 
4 Wild Turkey 
3 Double-crested Cormorant 
3 Great Blue Heron 
2 Great Egret 
2 Turkey Vulture 
2 Osprey 
1 Bald Eagle 
6 Clapper Rail 
12 Clapper Rail (Atlantic Coast) 
12 Black-bellied Plover 
200 Semipalmated Plover 
2 Killdeer 
20 Dunlin 
6 Least Sandpiper 
350 Semipalmated Sandpiper 
75 Short-billed Dowitcher 
1 Greater Yellowlegs 
4 Willet 
14 Laughing Gull 
2 Herring Gull 
2 Forster's Tern 
4 Mourning Dove 
3 Yellow-billed/Black-billed Cuckoo 
4 Eastern Wood-Pewee 
2 Acadian Flycatcher 
6 Great Crested Flycatcher 
1 Eastern Kingbird 
3 White-eyed Vireo 
2 Red-eyed Vireo 
4 Blue Jay 
5 crow sp. 
10 Purple Martin 
25 Tree Swallow 
12 Barn Swallow 
1 Carolina Chickadee 
3 Tufted Titmouse 
2 House Wren 
4 Marsh Wren 
2 Carolina Wren 
3 Wood Thrush 
2 American Robin 
1 Brown Thrasher 
6 Ovenbird 
1 Louisiana Waterthrush 
1 Blue-winged Warbler 
1 Prothonotary Warbler 
5 Common Yellowthroat 
1 Magnolia Warbler 
2 Yellow Warbler 
1 Pine Warbler 
2 Prairie Warbler 
3 Seaside Sparrow 
10 Chipping Sparrow 
4 Field Sparrow 
1 Eastern Towhee 
2 Summer Tanager 
4 Northern Cardinal 
2 Indigo Bunting 
25 Red-winged Blackbird 
2 Brown-headed Cowbird 
15 Common Grackle 
1 Boat-tailed Grackle