[EMAS] Biltmore Est, 3/22/15

  • From: Chris Kelly <kellych74@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "emas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Audubon Society" <emas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 16:08:17 -0400

Highlights today at Biltmore Estate's NW end (farmyard and roads and trails
in vicinity of solar field) included purple martins investigating a martin
house and a savannah sparrow. I did not check on the red-headed woodpecker
sites. Next time. Chris Kelly, Asheville, NC

Biltmore Estate, Buncombe, US-NC
Mar 22, 2015 11:00 AM - 12:45 PM
Protocol: Traveling
1.0 mile(s)
Comments:     Fields around Farmyard and points north/northwest (Westover
Trail, road bed, solar field).
31 species

Canada Goose  4
Turkey Vulture  3
Mourning Dove  3
Red-bellied Woodpecker  4
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  2
Pileated Woodpecker  1
Eastern Phoebe  2
Blue Jay  3
American Crow  4
Purple Martin  5     At martin house in barnyard.
Tree Swallow  12
Carolina Chickadee  9
Tufted Titmouse  1
White-breasted Nuthatch  1
Carolina Wren  3
Golden-crowned Kinglet  2
Eastern Bluebird  6
American Robin  73
Brown Thrasher  1
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  9
Pine Warbler  2
Eastern Towhee  4
Chipping Sparrow  4
Field Sparrow  5
Savannah Sparrow  1     Flushed out of a pile of wood posts and perched in
a pine sapling.
Song Sparrow  7
White-throated Sparrow  1
Northern Cardinal  3
Eastern Meadowlark  4
House Finch  4

View this checklist online at
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S22469608

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