[birdky] Sloughs WMA 10/26/09

  • From: Charles Crawford <cr4d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: BIRDKY <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:01:32 -0500



Location: Sloughs WMA - Pond Creek Marsh, Shorebird Unit, Hardy Slough
Observation date:     10/26/09

Wow, a great day for birding, no wind and rising temps.
Late date for Dickcissel!
Another large mixed flock of Red-winged Blackbirds, Starlings, and Brown-headed Cowbirds. It seems the Grackles are not flocking yet...although they're quite common.

Number of species:     49

Canada Goose     17
Mallard     19
Wild Turkey     7
Pied-billed Grebe     9
Great Blue Heron     1
Great Egret     3 getting kind of late for these guys, at Hardy Slough
Northern Harrier     1
Red-tailed Hawk     5
American Coot 100 numbers keep increasing, over half of these were at a flooded south portion of Wood Tract visible from SBU impoundment
Killdeer     75
Least Sandpiper     3
Dunlin     18
Wilson's Snipe 9 all overhead, their calling is what caught my attention
Belted Kingfisher     1
Red-headed Woodpecker     3
Red-bellied Woodpecker     5
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker     1
Downy Woodpecker     11
Northern Flicker     15
Pileated Woodpecker     2
Eastern Phoebe     2
Blue Jay     7
American Crow     35
Horned Lark     2
Tree Swallow     10 numbers are down
Carolina Chickadee     3
Tufted Titmouse     2
White-breasted Nuthatch     1
Winter Wren     1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet     3
Eastern Bluebird     8
SWAINSON'S THRUSH     1
American Robin     3
European Starling     750
Yellow-rumped Warbler     8
Eastern Towhee     2
Field Sparrow     10
Song Sparrow     3
Swamp Sparrow     10
White-throated Sparrow     15
White-crowned Sparrow     7
Northern Cardinal     15
Indigo Bunting     1
DICKCISSEL 1 female, skulking in the underbrush along Pond Creek Marsh road, quite unusual behavior from the summer
Red-winged Blackbird     1500
Eastern Meadowlark     2
Common Grackle     100
Brown-headed Cowbird     1000
American Goldfinch     25

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)

Charlie
Henderson Co.


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