Five birders joined me today for a fairly hot and muggy edition of the Sunday
morning Dyke Marsh Walk, sponsored by the Friends of Dyke Marsh and open to
everyone. I want to thank Sherm Suter for helping me keep the numbers. Not many
passerine migrants today, with the possible exception of Blue Jays and Robins.
Highlight non-passerines consisted of quite a number of Forster's Terns and a
flyby Yellow-billed Cuckoo. Ospreys have seem to have bailed; we only found
two. A Sharp-shinned Hawk cruised over the wooded area, no doubt in search of
a small songbird meal. We had trouble finding the sonbirds. Perhaps the Sharpie
faired a little better.
Today' List
Canada Goose 50
Mallard 110
Osprey 2
Bald Eagle 1 (adult)
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Pied-billed Grebe 7
Double-crested Cormorant 17
Great Blue Heron 18
Great Egret 46
Laughing Gull 115
Ring-billed Gull 60
Herring Gull 4
Great Black-backed Gull 2
Caspian Tern 5
Forster's Tern 80
Mourning Dove 20
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Chimney Swift 2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 4
Belted Kingfisher 4
Red-bellied Woodpecker 3
Downy Woodpecker 2
Eastern Wood-Pewee 2
Red-eyed Vireo 1
Blue Jay 60
Fish Crow 3
crow sp. 5
Tree Swallow 6
Carolina Chickadee 6
Tufted Titmouse 2
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Carolina Wren 6
American Robin 40
Gray Catbird 4
Northern Mockingbird 2
European Starling 75
Yellow Warbler 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler 1 (Hatch year female)
Common Yellowthroat 1
Song Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 9
Red-winged Blackbird 50
Common Grackle 17
House Finch 2
American Goldfinch 6
House Sparrow 20
Larry Cartwright
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