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
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