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 5American 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 18Wilson'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 1DICKCISSEL 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.