Thursday, July 16, 2009

Magee Marsh bird census, July 16

Hello everybody,

Here is what Mary and I saw on July 16, under pleasant weather conditions. It seems that the young prothonotaries have fledged and are out and about.

Jim

Canada goose
Trumpeter swan
Wood duck
Mallard
Pied-billed grebe
Double-crested cormorant
Great blue heron
Great egret
Green heron
Black-crowned night-heron
Bald eagle
Cooper’s hawk
Red-tailed hawk
Killdeer
Least sandpiper
Spotted sandpiper
Common snipe
Bonaparte’s gull
Ring-billed gull
Herring gull
Common tern
Caspian tern
Yellow-billed cuckoo
Black-billed cuckoo
Red-bellied woodpecker
Downy woodpecker
Northern flicker
Eastern wood-pewee
Willow flycatcher
Eastern kingbird
Warbling vireo
Red-eyed vireo
Purple martin
Tree swallow
Northern rough-winged swallow
Barn swallow
White-breasted nuthatch
House wren
Marsh wren
American robin
Gray catbird
Brown thrasher
European starling
Cedar waxwing
Yellow warbler
Common yellowthroat
Prothonotary warbler
Chipping sparrow
Song sparrow
Swamp sparrow
Northern cardinal
Indigo bunting
Red-winged blackbird
Common grackle
Brown-headed cowbird
Baltimore oriole
American goldfinch
House sparrow