Today (7/14/13) my dad and I took a wonderful bird hike on Mutton Hunk Fen
Natural Area Preserve in Accomack county. It was amazing a usual for this place
as every time I go. This was even better this time because while walking along
the natural grass field I could hear a sound I could only describe as "Tick
Tick Tick" sound. I kept telling my dad " must be a Dickcissel" He blew it off
when I first noticed a Blue Grosbeak making a similar song but further down the
field not to far from the Grosbeak I heard another "Tick Tick Tick " but had a
light buzzing at the end unlike the Grosbeak. again I scanned the field till I
found the bird and sure enough it was a male Dickcissel calling loudly only a
few feet from us. soon we could hear 2 more and one female flew up soon after.
Other birds I saw on my hike. ( note did not count the birds this time only the
Dickcissel"s)
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Green Heron
Black crowned Night Heron
Mallard
Turkey Vulture
Black Vulture
Red Tailed Hawk
Osprey
Northern Bobwhite ( doing very well I almost caught one with my hands on the
way back to the car.)
Clapper Rail
Killdeer
Laughing Gull
Forster's Tern
Mourning Dove
Rock Pigeon
Yellow billed Cuckoo
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Northern Flicker
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
White eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Horned Lark ( potato field out of the park )
Purple Marten
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Tufted Titmouse
Carolina Chickadee
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Blue gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
Cedar Waxwings
Pine Warbler
Ovenbird
Common Yellowthroat
Northern Cardinal
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
DICKCISSEL , 3
Eastern Towhee
Field Sparrows
Chipping Sparrows
Seaside Sparrows
Song Sparrows
Grasshopper Sparrows
Eastern Meadowlark
Brown headed Cowbird
Red winged Blackbird
Boat tailed Grackle
Orchard Oriole
American Goldfinch
Birding forever
Jennifer Elmer
Pocomoke City Md
