Friday, May 15, 2009

Good Diversity, Small Numbers at Higbee - including Dickcissel

Back-to-back Higbee Beach walks during CMBO's spring weekend today yielded a female Dickcissel in the tower field, plus Wilson's, Blackpoll, Black-throated Green and Black-throated Blue among the 13 warbler species, and a lovely male Scarlet Tanager near the parking lot. Blue Grosbeaks seemed evident everywhere, and Indigo Buntings, too. A fun highlight at the start of the walk was a Mourning Dove carrying an egg shell and dropping it on the edge of the parking area. The full list - a composite of both walks - is below.

Location: Higbee Beach
Observation date: 5/15/09
Notes: CMBO Spring Weekend - composite of the two morning walks
Number of species: 58
Canada Goose 2
Wood Duck 1
Common Loon 1
Double-crested Cormorant 5
Great Egret 1
Green Heron 1
Osprey 2
Black-bellied Plover 1
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Laughing Gull 50
Herring Gull 5
Forster's Tern 10
Mourning Dove 10
Great Horned Owl 1
Chimney Swift 5
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 5
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 4
Eastern Kingbird 10
White-eyed Vireo 5
Red-eyed Vireo 5
Blue Jay 10
Purple Martin 5
Carolina Chickadee 5
Tufted Titmouse 5
Carolina Wren 10
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 3
Gray Catbird 3
Northern Mockingbird 1
Brown Thrasher 3
European Starling 1
Nashville Warbler 1
Northern Parula 5
Chestnut-sided Warbler 1
Magnolia Warbler 2
Black-throated Blue Warbler 1
Black-throated Green Warbler 3
Prairie Warbler 1
Blackpoll Warbler 2
Black-and-white Warbler 2
American Redstart 1
Common Yellowthroat 2
Wilson's Warbler 1
Yellow-breasted Chat 1
Scarlet Tanager 1
Eastern Towhee 1
Field Sparrow 4
Northern Cardinal 5
Blue Grosbeak 5
Indigo Bunting 6
Red-winged Blackbird 5
Common Grackle 10
Brown-headed Cowbird 15
Orchard Oriole 2
Baltimore Oriole 3
American Goldfinch 2
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)

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