Above Par Birding at Cox Hall Creek WMA - Sunday, August 12th, 2018

The 1st walk of the autumn season here yielded a small flock of warblers including Pine, Black-and-white, Chestnut-sided, and American Redstart plus a few Blue-gray Gnatcatchers. We also saw a number of young-of-the-year species, looking not quite grown-up. The Field and Chipping Sparrows are little streaky, and a Northern Flicker, Great-crested Flycatcher and Indigo Buntings looked like young birds.   

Leaders: Kathy Horn, Roger Horn, Janet Crawford, Shaun Bamford, Cindy Bamford
44 species

2 Wood Duck
6 Mallard (Northern)
2 Green Heron
1 Turkey Vulture
2 Osprey (carolinensis)
3 Laughing Gull
1 Herring Gull (American)
6 Mourning Dove
3 Chimney Swift
4 Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2 Red-bellied Woodpecker
3 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)
3 Eastern Wood-Pewee
4 Great Crested Flycatcher
5 Eastern Kingbird
1 White-eyed Vireo
1 Red-eyed Vireo (Red-eyed)
4 Blue Jay
1 Fish Crow
15 Purple Martin
5 Carolina Chickadee
8 Tufted Titmouse
2 White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)
1 House Wren
9 Carolina Wren
4 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
10 American Robin
5 Gray Catbird
6 Northern Mockingbird
1 Black-and-white Warbler
1 American Redstart
1 Chestnut-sided Warbler
2 Pine Warbler
2 Chipping Sparrow
2 Field Sparrow
4 Northern Cardinal
2 Blue Grosbeak
6 Indigo Bunting
6 Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)
7 Brown-headed Cowbird
6 Common Grackle
1 House Finch
3 American Goldfinch