Monday, August 24, 2009

Magee Marsh bird census, Aug 18

Hello everybody,

Sorry for the late post, but here is what Mary, Shane, and I saw at Magee:

Double-crested cormorant
Canada goose
Mallard
Wood duck
Ring-billed gull
Herring gull
Common tern
Great blue heron
Green heron
Great egret
Killdeer
Spotted sandpiper
Greater yellowlegs
Cooper's hawk
Red-tailed hawk
Bald Eagle
Osprey
Mourning dove
Yellow-billed cuckoo
Ruby-throated hummingbird
Purple martin
Barn swallow
Northern rough-winged swallow
Bank swallow
Northern flicker
Downy woodpecker
Eastern kingbird
Eastern phoebe
Eastern wood-pewee
American crow
Black-capped chickadee
House wren
Marsh wren
Blue-gray gnatcatcher
Brown thrasher
Gray catbird
American robin
Cedar waxwing
Red-eyed vireo
Warbling vireo
Prothonotary warbler
Yellow warbler
Common yellowthroat warbler
American redstart
Red-winged blackbird
Common grackle
Bobolink
European starling
Baltimore oriole
House sparrow
Northern cardinal
House finch
American goldfinch
Song sparrow
Swamp sparrow
Chipping sparrow
Indigo bunting

Mark your calendars for the next bird census: September 15 at 7:00 AM.