Leader : Bob Machover
1. Canada Goose – many, with chicks of various ages
2. Mallard – a few
3. Turkey Vulture – a few
4. Red-tailed Hawk – 1
5. Rock Pigeon
6. Mourning Dove
7. Yellow-billed Cuckoo – 2, heard only
8. Chimney Swift – heard only
9. Red-bellied Woodpecker – fairly numerous
10. Downy Woodpecker – ditto
11. Hairy Woodpecker – 1, heard and seen
12. Northern Flicker – 1 or 2 heard
13. Eastern Wood-Pewee – 2 seen, another couple heard
14. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher – 3!, all well-seen at eye-level…also heard
making the chu-whee call
15. Eastern Phoebe – several
16. Great Crested Flycatcher – many, seemingly everywhere
17. Warbling Vireo – common around the lake
18. Red-eyed Vireo – abundant of course
19. Blue Jay
20. American Crow
21. Northern Rough-winged Swallow – a couple over the lake
22. Black-capped Chickadee – several
23. Tufted Titmouse – several
24. White-breasted Nuthatch – 1 or 2
25. Veery – 4 or 5
26. Gray-cheeked Thrush – 2, one slightly brownish, the other steel-gray –
both evenly colored across back, wings and tail.
27. Swainson’s Thrush – more than 6
28. Wood Thrush – at least a dozen, all heard only
29. Gray Catbird – abundant
30. Northern Mockingbird – a few
31. Brown Thrasher – quite common, lots of singing birds perched in the
open
32. European Starling
33. Northern Parula – 1 seen, about 4 more heard
34. Yellow Warbler – common around lake
35. Chestnut-sided Warbler – 3-4 seen
36. Magnolia Warbler – about 10 seen
37. Black-throated Blue Warbler – 3, 2 seen and one heard
38. Black-throated Green Warbler – 1 or 2 early in AM
39. Bay-breasted Warbler – 1 seen and heard, early in AM
40. Blackpoll Warbler – about 8 heard, 1 or 2 seen
41. Black-and-white Warbler – 2 or 3 seen
42. American Redstart – something like 20 seen and heard…the most
common warbler of the day
43. Ovenbird Warbler– 3 or 4 heard, one seen
44. Mourning Warbler – 1 male, foraging in trees at eye-level or slightly
higher…well-studied by all for at least 15 minutes…at one
point, he sat motionless for a few minutes, perched like a
flycatcher…curiously, he failed to sing once
45. Common Yellowthroat – perhaps as abundant as the redstarts
46. Scarlet Tanager – 7 or 8 heard, 1 well-seen
47. Eastern Towhee – several heard
48. Chipping Sparrow – common
49. Song Sparrow – several
50. White-throated Sparrow – 2, very late
51. Northern Cardinal
52. Rose-breasted Grosbeak – very common
53. Red-winged Blackbird – some at marshy end of the lake
54. Common Grackle – common
55. Brown-headed Cowbird – fairly common
56. Baltimore Oriole – abundant
57. American Goldfinch – fairly common
58. House Sparrow
59 Wild Turkey
60 American Robin
Note: Apart from the incredible views of the Mourning Warbler, the most exciting part of the day was the discovery of a mixed-species feeding frenzy around a swarm of low-flying insects, presumably a recent hatch of termites. It’s worth listing the birds involved:
1. Red-bellied Woodpecker
2. Downy Woodpecker
3. Eastern Wood Pewee
4. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher (2)
5. Great Crested Flycatcher
6. Red-eyed Vireo
7. Veery (probably 2)
8. Swainson’s Thrush
9. Gray-cheeked Thrush
10. Northern Parula Warbler
11. Chestnut-sided Warbler(1 male, 1 female)
12. Magnolia Warbler
13. Black Throated BlueWarbler (1 female)
14. American Redstart Warbler (probably 3 – one ad. male, 2 females)
15. Ovenbird Warbler
16. White-throated Sparrow (2)
Also nearby, though probably not part of the frenzy, were a couple of Mourning Doves and a Black-and-white-Warbler.
