This morning started with great weather, sunny and no breeze but few
birds unfortunately. It seems most of the migrants have taken advantage
of nice days and vacated many places. Eight people had an excellent walk
at the Chirp Creek Farm (former Packard-Littlefield farm) in Lisbon.
This is a wonderful place to walk and we all enjoyed being there.
Sparrows were sparse, no white-crowned were seen, but we did get six
sparrow species. The Bluebirds were most accommodating. All in all we
had 29 species.
Birds seen and heard (H) were:
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Turkey Vulture – 4 or 5
Sharp-shinned Hawk – 1 flyover
Cooper’s Hawk – 1 or maybe 2 seen a couple times
Red-tailed Hawk – 1 far in the distance
Downy Woodpecker
Blue Jay
American Crow
Common Raven – saw and called
Black-capped Chickadee
Ruby-crowned Kinglet – 2
Eastern Bluebird – 5 twice so maybe more
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird – 1 or 2, saw twice near the barn and further back,
should stay all winter
European Starling
House Sparrow
House Finch
American Goldfinch
Chipping Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow – 15 or so, the common sparrow in the planted fields
Song Sparrow – 1 or 2, few
Swamp Sparrow (H)
White-throated Sparrow – 8+
Dark-eyed Junco – at least 2, low
Red-winged Blackbird – 5 flyover, id not 100% certain
Yellow-rumped Warbler – 1
Blackpoll Warbler – 1, maybe 2
Northern Cardinal (H)
Stan DeOrsey