[bcbirdclub] Breaks Park Birding

  • From: roger mayhorn <rmayhorn@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bcbirdclub <bcbirdclub@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 04:49:07 -0400 (EDT)

Yesterday, on a marvelous spring day,  Daryl Owens, David Raines and I, Roger 
Mayhorn, spent a few hours in the Breaks Park in hopes of finding some early 
spring migrants. We thought we might find a Blue-headed Vireo, usually the  
earliest passerine migrant that arrives in the park, but evidently we were a 
few days early. We did find the female Bufflehead on Laurel Lake that David 
Raines had discovered the day before. 
The highlight of the day came later when Daryl Owens spotted two Brown Creepers 
in the same tree  on the road leading down to the Garden Hole. It is not often 
that we get to see these elusive little fellows, and it was even more enjoyable 
to get to see two together. 
Below is the day's complete species list. 

Roger Mayhorn 
Compton Mt  

  
Bufflehead 1f - Laurel Lake 
Black Vulture 2 
Turkey Vulture 14 - Stateline Overlook 
Red-shouldered Hawk 1 - Beaver Pond 
Red-tailed Hawk 1 
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 
Hairy Woodpecker 1 
Northern Flicker 1 
Eastern Phoebe 3 
Blue Jay 1 
Common Raven 1 carrying food - Stateline Overlook 
Carolina Chickadee 3 
White-breasted Nuthatch 2 
Brown Creeper 2 - Garden Hole road 
American Robin 3 
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2 
Eastern Towhee 3 
Dark-eyed Junco 1 
Song Sparrow 5 - Breaks Community 
Northern Cardinal 1 
Red-winged Blackbird 1 
American Goldfinch 1 

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