Higbee Beach Birding - Friday, May 11, 2018


Highlights included 2 Magnolia Warblers, 2 Bay Breasted Warblers, several Blue Grosbeaks and Indigo Buntings, and Baltimore Oriole.

Group 1 leaders: Dr David Lapuma, Pete Dunne, Mary Watkins +26 participants
species 60
6 Canada Goose 
3 Double-crested Cormorant 
1 Great Blue Heron 
1 Snowy Egret 
1 Green Heron 
3 Glossy Ibis 
2 Turkey Vulture 
4 Osprey 
1 Short-billed Dowitcher -- Flyover
12 Laughing Gull 
1 Herring Gull 
2 Great Black-backed Gull 
6 Forster's Tern 
4 Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 
6 Mourning Dove 
1 Chimney Swift 
1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 
5 Red-bellied Woodpecker 
1 Northern Flicker 
3 Great Crested Flycatcher 
3 Eastern Kingbird 
5 White-eyed Vireo 
3 Red-eyed Vireo 
6 Blue Jay 
2 American Crow 
8 Tree Swallow 
2 Barn Swallow 
10 Carolina Chickadee 
2 Tufted Titmouse 
4 Carolina Wren 
3 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 
1 American Robin 
8 Gray Catbird 
35 Cedar Waxwing 
1 Ovenbird 
7 Common Yellowthroat 
1 American Redstart 
4 Northern Parula 
2 Magnolia Warbler 
2 Bay-breasted Warbler 
1 Yellow Warbler 
2 Black-throated Blue Warbler 
2 Yellow-rumped Warbler 
3 Prairie Warbler 
2 White-throated Sparrow 
5 Eastern Towhee 
2 Yellow-breasted Chat 
8 Northern Cardinal 
1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 
3 Blue Grosbeak 
5 Indigo Bunting 
1 Dickcissel 
1 Orchard Oriole 
5 Baltimore Oriole 
25 Red-winged Blackbird 
5 Brown-headed Cowbird 
14 Common Grackle 
1 Boat-tailed Grackle 
4 House Finch 
1 American Goldfinch