[bcbirdclub] Last Saturday's Birding

From: "Roger Mayhorn" <rmayhorn@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "BCBC Listserve" <bcbirdclub@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:45:12 -0400
Don Carrier joined me on Saturday for birding here on Compton Mt. In spite of 
the wind we birded here at our place, then went to the Mountain Top Golf 
Course, and later birded and area I call The Flat. It's a large flat area where 
a mine used to stockpile coal. It has since been reclaimed and is now getting 
to the stage of growth that is good for birds. Dave and Ed, you may remember 
it. We checked it out a few years ago before it was reclaimed. Mike Sanders and 
I found a male Blue-winged Warbler on territory there back during the breeding 
season.

Don and I were surprised to find so many late warblers here at our place. We 
had a Tennessee, 2 Magnolias, 2 Cape Mays, 15 Yellow-rumps, a male 
Black-throated Green and a male Bay-breasted. We also had a late Chimney Swift, 
a Blue-headed Vireo, a returning for winter Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, 2 
Swainson's Thrushes, 2 Wood Thrushes a Gray Catbird and a White-crowned Sparrow.

The most surprising bird of the day was a Common Snipe that we flushed near a 
mudhole on the The Flat. We ended the day with 41 species. 
Here is a photo of the Blue-headed Vireo and one of The Flat.

The day's complete list follows the photos.

Roger Mayhorn
Compton Mt


                                                                            
Blue-headed Vireo


                                                                     The Flat

41 species

Turkey Vulture 5 

Red-shouldered Hawk 1

Common Snipe 1 

Mourning Dove 3 

Chimney Swift 1

Red-bellied Woodpecker 1f

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1m

Downy Woodpecker 2 (1m, 1f)

Hairy Woodpecker 1f

Northern Flicker 10 

Eastern Phoebe 1

Blue Headed Vireo 1

Blue Jay 8

American Crow 75 

Carolina Chickadee 3

Tufted Titmouse 4

White-breasted Nuthatch 2

Carolina Wren 1

Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2

Eastern Bluebird 9 

Swainson's Thrush 2

Wood Thrush 2

American Robin 2

Gray Catbird 1

European Starling 20 

Cedar Waxwing 40

Tennessee Warbler 1

Magnolia Warbler 2

Cape May Warbler 2 

Yellow-rumped Warbler 15

Black-throated Green Warbler 1m

Bay-breasted Warbler 1m

Eastern Towhee 4

Chipping Sparrow 14 

Song Sparrow 1

White-crowned Sparrow 1 Juv

White-throated Sparrow 5

Northern Cardinal 2 (1f)

American Goldfinch 2

House Finch 1m

House Sparrow 2 (1m, 1f)
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