Fall Migrants at the Rea Farm - Saturday, November 17th, 2018


Ten Sandhill Cranes flying overhead, calling, were a great start to this morning's walk. It was the last walk at the Beanery for the season - we switch to the State Park for the winter - but it reminded me why we do the Beanery walks throughout the fall: we had small numbers of many good birds. A very late Red-eyed Vireo should be down in the Amazon Basin of South America by now, with those birds generally gone from here in October. A Baltimore Oriole was also a late migrant. And in the 'recent arrival' category, we had a first-of-season Fox Sparrow showing his big, bold rusty stripes and right on time as a mid-November late migrant. 

Leaders: Kathy Horn, Roger Horn, Kyle Chelius, Michael McCabe
41 species

Canada Goose  7
Mallard  11
Mourning Dove  5
Sandhill Crane  10     Photos
Killdeer  3
Herring Gull (American)  3
Double-crested Cormorant  1
Great Blue Heron (Blue form)  1
Black Vulture  3
Turkey Vulture  3
Sharp-shinned Hawk  1
Cooper's Hawk  1
Bald Eagle  3
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  2
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  2
American Kestrel  1
Blue Jay  3
American Crow  4
Tree Swallow  2
Brown Creeper  1
Carolina Wren (Northern)  5
Golden-crowned Kinglet  1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1
Eastern Bluebird  7
American Robin  7
Gray Catbird  1
Brown Thrasher  2
Northern Mockingbird  6
European Starling  20
American Goldfinch  14
Fox Sparrow (Red)  1
White-throated Sparrow  10
Song Sparrow  4
Swamp Sparrow  3
Eastern Towhee  1
Baltimore Oriole  1
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  18
Palm Warbler (Western)  1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  4
Northern Cardinal  4

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