Higbee Beach Birding - Friday, September 13, 2019


Songbirds were tough to get bins on this windy morning, but the start of a good hawk migration day was evident even this early. Both an adult and a first-year Bald Eagle passed fairly close overhead, making comparison easy. A Sharp-shinned Hawk and Cooper's Hawks also hunted over the fields. A nice surprise was the Common Nighthawk that flew in its characteristic erratic, bounding flight across our view.

Leaders: Kathy Horn, Roger Horn, Mary Watkins, Jackie Parker
34 species

Canada Goose  4
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  1
Mourning Dove  3
Common Nighthawk  1
Chimney Swift  1
Laughing Gull  2
Forster's Tern  1
Great Blue Heron (Blue form)  1
Turkey Vulture  12
Osprey (carolinensis)  3
Sharp-shinned Hawk (Northern)  1
Cooper's Hawk  2
Bald Eagle  2
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Eastern Kingbird  1
Red-eyed Vireo  1
Blue Jay  2
Carolina Chickadee  1
Tree Swallow  5
Carolina Wren (Northern)  6
European Starling  4
Gray Catbird  2
Bobolink  8
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  2
Brown-headed Cowbird  2
Common Grackle  4
Black-and-white Warbler  1
Common Yellowthroat (trichas Group)  1
American Redstart  4
Northern Parula  1
Northern Cardinal  2
Blue Grosbeak  1
Indigo Bunting  1

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