I did my first BBS route over the weekend and tallied 62 species and 1262
individual birds. Most were on par with what had been seen before but I
did find one singing male Bobolink. One of the fun highlights was while
watching a Turkey Vulture in a field a Wild Turkey came out of some long
grass next to it. They stared at each other for a good while looking
confused as if thinking “there’s something familiar about you”.
The list is below.
Ronan O’Carra
Lexington
Northern Bobwhite 5
Mourning Dove 45
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 11
Chimney Swift 2
Ruby-throated
Hummingbird 1
Killdeer 3
Great Blue Heron 1
Black Vulture 1
Turkey Vulture 4
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Red-bellied
Woodpecker 15
Downy Woodpecker 7
(Yellow-shafted Flicker) Northern Flicker 1
American Kestrel 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 4
Eastern Phoebe 4
Eastern Kingbird 8
White-eyed Vireo 2
Red-eyed Vireo 5
Blue Jay 21
American Crow 13
Purple Martin 9
Tree Swallow 5
Barn Swallow 38
Carolina Chickadee 7
Tufted Titmouse 12
House Wren 16
Carolina Wren 24
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 7
Eastern Bluebird 10
American Robin 74
Brown Thrasher 7
Northern Mockingbird 14
European Starling 496
Cedar Waxwing 6
House Sparrow 3
House Finch 2
American Goldfinch 17
Eastern Towhee 5
Chipping Sparrow 10
Field Sparrow 11
Grasshopper Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 20
Yellow-breasted Chat 3
Eastern Meadowlark 17
Baltimore Oriole 15
Red-winged Blackbird 55
Brown-headed Cowbird 11
Common Grackle 97
Common Yellowthroat 5
Prairie Warbler 1
Northern Cardinal 46
Blue Grosbeak 1
Indigo Bunting 49
Wild Turkey 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Red-headed Woodpecker 1
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Warbling Vireo 1
Gray Catbird 6
Bobolink 1
Kentucky Warbler 1
Total Species : 62 Total ind. : 1262
