Another great day, perfect weather. Fourteen people attended the walk at St. Peter’s Cemetery which became a bit of an adventure as we ended up walking under the power lines all the the way to Gulf Island Dam. And we had a number of special birds … a Baltimore Oriole was seen by all, however a Green Heron and a Brown Thrasher were only seen by a few. We also had a number of hawks. Here is the full list: H = heard only
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron
Osprey
Red Shouldered Hawk – an immature sat is a tree for all to see and an adult may have flown over
Broad-winged Hawk – two circled over us, one may have been an immature
Red-tailed Hawk – some debate on this one but consensus was Red-tail
Ring-billed Gull – Staples
Rock Pigeon – Staples
Mourning Dove
Ruby-throated Hummingbird – 2
Downy Woodpecker
Willow Flycatcher – he actually called and consensus was this
unidentified flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Kingbird
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
House Wren
American Robin
Gray Catbird – many
Brown Thrasher – 1
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing – quite a few, 10+?
Yellow Warbler (H)
Prairie Warbler
Common Yellowthroat (H)
Eastern Towhee (H)
Chipping Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow (H)
Baltimore Oriole – 1
House Finch
American Goldfinch
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Stan DeOrsey