May 19 bird count

Hello friends,

With the help of bird count stalwart Shane Roberts, I conducted the monthly bird count under mostly sunny skies and seasonable (finally!) weather. We saw (or other birders mentioned that they saw) over 80 species in a little over 5 total hours of birding. The rarest bird was probably an orange-crowned warbler on the boardwalk, which we don't get many of here at Magee. I hung around with a mixed group of warblers near #5 at the boardwalk, in a small clearing with a couple cypress trees. A little further west near #4 was a woodcock, which hung around throughout the day. Here is a list of what we saw today.

Double-crested cormorant
Great blue heron
Great egret
Green heron
Canada goose
Trumpeter swan
Wood duck
Mallard
Blue-winged teal
Bald eagle
Killdeer
Spotted sandpiper
Ruddy turnstone
American woodcock
Dunlin
Ring-billed gull
Herring gull
Common tern
Chimney swift
Ruby-throated hummingbird
Downy woodpecker
Northern flicker
Tree swallow
Purple martin
Barn swallow
Cedar waxwing
House wren
Gray catbird
Brown thrasher
Veery
Gray-cheeked thrush
Swainson's thrush
American robin
Blue-gray gnatcatcher
Ruby-crowned kinglet
Eastern wood-pewee
Least flycatcher
Willow flycatcher
Great crested flycatcher
Eastern phoebe
Eastern kingbird
Black capped chickadee
Blue jay
Warbling vireo
Philadelphia vireo
Red-eyed vireo
Tennessee warbler
Orange-crowned warbler
Nashville warbler
N. parula
Yellow warbler
Chestnut-sided warbler
Magnolia warbler
Cape May warbler
Black-throated blue warbler
Yellow-rumped warbler
Black-throated green warbler
Blackburnian warbler
Bay-breasted warbler
Blackpoll warbler
Black-and-white warbler
American redstart
Prothonotary warbler
Ovenbird
Mourning warbler
Common yellowthroat
Wilson's warbler
Canada warbler
American goldfinch
House finch
House sparrow
Northern cardinal
Indigo bunting
Baltimore oriole
Red-winged blackbird
Common grackle
Brown-headed cowbird
Bobolink
Scarlet tanager
Song sparrow
Swamp sparrow
White-crowned sparrow
White-throated sparrow
Eastern towhee

I have heard from other birders that Friday may be a good day for an influx of migrants into the area. Let's keep our fingers crossed!