This morning ten people met at the YMCA camp property in Auburn for what
was a nice walk with good birds and nice weather. We quickly
encountered a group of warblers and then another group. Indeed our best
bird of the day was really the warblers as a group, ten species total
but not everyone saw them all.
Birds seen and heard (H) numbered 41 species:
Canada Goose – 20 flying over low and loud
Wild Turkey – 1 adult and 1 young
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Ruby-throated hummingbird
Herring Gull
Double-crested Cormorant – 1 flying at a distance
Turkey Vulture
Cooper’s Hawk – only 1 flew by quickly then came back and left quickly
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Eastern Wood-Pewee (H)
Least Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Blue-headed Vireo – 2 together
Red-eyed Vireo – maybe 5
Blue Jay
American Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch – 4+
House Wren – 2 briefly
Golden-crowned Kinglet (H)
Veery – 1 briefly thought to be a Veery
American Robin
Gray Catbird
House Finch
American Goldfinch
Chipping Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird – 300 in corn field across the road from the entrance
Black-and-white Warbler – 4+
Common Yellowthroat – 3
American Redstart – at least 3, 1 male
Northern Parula – 2,maybe more
Magnolia Warbler – 1 by Gordon
Bay-breasted Warbler – 1 by Gordon
Chestnut-sided Warbler – 2
Pine Warbler – 1
Black-throated Green Warbler – 1
Northern Cardinal
—
Stan DeOrsey