Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Sept 12th-14th Wissahickon Preserve / Upper Delaware Watershed

Bobolink ( one of many ),Bombay Hook NWR, photo by Bobbi Manian


Leader Peter Dorosh
Participants : Bobbi Manian, Jerry Layton, Karen O'Hearn, Kathy Toomey, Marc Brawer

Locations: Wissahickon Valley Park, Carpenter Woods, Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Little Creek WMA, Port Mahon Road, Port Mispillion, Slaughter Beach, Ashland Nature Center, Brandywine Creek State Park

Gallery links

Bobbi Manian's Facebook https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10203366321817928.1073741847.1207827614&type=1&l=2cf208846c

Marc Brawer's   https://www.flickr.com/photos/124442817@N02/sets/72157647237841318/

Avocet flock at Bombay Hook NWR, photo by Marc Brawer

Bird List

110 species 


Shorebirds at Bombay Hook, photo by Marc Brawer




Double-crested Cormorant 
Snowy Egret 
Black-crowned Night-Heron 
Green Heron 
Great Egret 
Great Blue Heron 
Glossy Ibis 
Turkey Vulture 
Black Vulture 
Tundra Swan 1                        --Bombay Hook NWR                     Bear Swamp Pool
Blue-winged Teal Bombay Hook NWR Shearness Pool
Snow Goose 1 Bombay Hook NWR Bear Swamp Pool
Canada Goose 
Wood Duck Bombay Hook NWR
Northern Pintail 9 Bombay Hook NWR flyover
Mallard 
Cooper's Hawk 
Red-shouldered Hawk Ashland Nature Center
Bald Eagle Bombay Hook NWR 5-7 
Red-tailed Hawk 
Osprey 
Jack-in-the-Pulpit with fruit, photo by Marc B
Sharp-shinned Hawk Northern Harrier Peregrine Falcon American Kestrel Merlin Bombay Hook NWR Clapper Rail Bombay Hook NWR-2 Killdeer Black-bellied Plover

Semipalmated Plover American Oystercatcher American Avocet 250-300 Bombay Hook NWR Semipalmated Sandpiper Western Sandpiper --Slaughter Beach Marbled Godwit --Bombay Hook NWR-4 Sanderling Slaughter Beach Least Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher --Port Mispillion  
Royal Tern- Port Mispillion ~8
Lesser Yellowlegs 
White-rumped Sandpiper 
Willet                                                  
Blue Grosbeak juvenile  Bombay Hook NWR , photo Karen O'Hearn
Solitary Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Greater Yellowlegs Laughing Gull Great Black-backed Gull Caspian Tern --Bombay Hook NWR ~10 Forster's Tern Bombay Hook NWR Common Tern -Taylors Gut
Royal Tern-Port Mispillion ~8
Herring Gull 
Rock Pigeon 
Mourning Dove 
Chimney Swift 
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 
Shorebird /mixed flock at Bombay Hook NWR, photo by Marc Brawer
Belted Kingfisher Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Northern Flicker Traills species Flycatcher Great Crested Flycatcher Wissahickon Preserve Eastern Phoebe Brandywine Creek Eastern Wood-Pewee Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Bombay Hook NWR White-eyed Vireo Red-eyed Vireo American Crow
Blue Grosbeak adult male Bombay Hook NWR , photo Karen O'Hearn
Blue Jay Tree Swallow Barn Swallow Tufted Titmouse Black-capped Chickadee White-breasted Nuthatch House Wren Carolina Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher American Robin Eastern Bluebird Brandywine Creek
Avocets , photo by Marc Brawer
Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher Northern Mockingbird European Starling Cedar Waxwing Yellow Warbler American Redstart Black-and-white Warbler Common Yellowthroat Chestnut-sided Warbler Blue-winged Warbler Northern Parula Magnolia Warbler Northern Waterthrush Scarlet Tanager Chipping Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Seaside Sparrow Bombay Hook NWR Rose-breasted Grosbeak Northern Cardinal Indigo Bunting Blue Grosbeak Bombay Hook NWR-4 Boat-tailed Grackle Bobolink Bombay Hook NWR ~ 65-70 Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird House Finch American Goldfinch House Sparrow

Note: A Sora was captured in a photo ,unfortunately not seen by any member.See Marc's gallery link above 

Bobolink  during sunset, Bombay Hook, photo by Marc B