Thursday, April 14, 2011

Lotsa New Arrivals Thursday!

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I had the good fortune to go birding this morning with Mike Resch, an excellent ABA birder from Massachusetts.  We birded the Lane's Landing marsh, State Game Area headquarters along the Maple River, and the Wastewater properties.  Feller DeWitt joined us along the way.
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The eBird list below speaks for itself, but have you ever seen American Tree Sparrow and Northern Parula at the same location on the same day?  
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- Ric
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Location:    Greater State Game and Wastewater Areas
Observation date:    4/14/11
Number of species:    73


Canada Goose - Branta canadensis    36
Mute Swan - Cygnus olor    1
Wood Duck - Aix sponsa    4
Gadwall - Anas strepera    2
American Wigeon - Anas americana    2    On west U-Pond, Lane's Landing marsh.
Mallard - Anas platyrhynchos    8
Blue-winged Teal - Anas discors    2
Northern Shoveler - Anas clypeata    60
Northern Pintail - Anas acuta    1    On the "snipe field" west of State Game Area headquarters.
Green-winged Teal - Anas crecca    5
Ring-necked Duck - Aythya collaris    1
Lesser Scaup - Aythya affinis    3
Bufflehead - Bucephala albeola    36
Hooded Merganser - Lophodytes cucullatus    24    2 at Lane's Landing Marsh, 22 on Clay Pond, Swanson south of Laketon.
Common Merganser - Mergus merganser    1    On Clay Pond, Swanson south of Laketon.
Ruddy Duck - Oxyura jamaicensis    36
Wild Turkey - Meleagris gallopavo    15
Great Blue Heron - Ardea herodias    2
Turkey Vulture - Cathartes aura    1
Northern Harrier - Circus cyaneus    1
Red-tailed Hawk - Buteo jamaicensis    2
American Kestrel - Falco sparverius    2
Virginia Rail - Rallus limicola    2    Vocalizing in mini-marsh east of Swanson south of Laketon.
Sora - Porzana carolina    1    Vocalizing on Lane's Landing marsh.
American Coot - Fulica americana    1    On the Clay Pond, Swanson south of Laketon.
Sandhill Crane - Grus canadensis    3
Killdeer - Charadrius vociferus    2
Greater Yellowlegs - Tringa melanoleuca    2    In the dry NE rapid filtration lagoon south of White Road.
Lesser Yellowlegs - Tringa flavipes    2    Lane's Landing marsh.
Upland Sandpiper - Bartramia longicauda    1    On the field SW of Laketon-Swanson intersection.
Ring-billed Gull - Larus delawarensis    10
gull sp. - Larinae sp.    500    On the center dike.
Mourning Dove - Zenaida macroura    6
Barred Owl - Strix varia    1    Vocalizing north of the Maple River west of State Game Area headquarters.
Belted Kingfisher - Megaceryle alcyon    1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - Melanerpes carolinus    1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - Sphyrapicus varius    2    1 east of State Game Area headquarters, 1 at mini-marsh on Swanson south of Laketon.
Downy Woodpecker - Picoides pubescens    2
Northern Flicker - Colaptes auratus    6
Pileated Woodpecker - Dryocopus pileatus    1
Eastern Phoebe - Sayornis phoebe    2
Blue Jay - Cyanocitta cristata    4
American Crow - Corvus brachyrhynchos    4
Horned Lark - Eremophila alpestris    12
Tree Swallow - Tachycineta bicolor    24
Barn Swallow - Hirundo rustica    3
Black-capped Chickadee - Poecile atricapillus    8
Tufted Titmouse - Baeolophus bicolor    1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - Regulus calendula    7
Eastern Bluebird - Sialia sialis    3
American Robin - Turdus migratorius    18
Brown Thrasher - Toxostoma rufum    1    East of the State Game Area headquarters buildings.
European Starling - Sturnus vulgaris    70
Northern Parula - Parula americana    1    Above the footbridge over the Maple River north of the State Game Area headquarters.
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) - Dendroica coronata coronata    4
Common Yellowthroat - Geothlypis trichas    1    Vocalizing on mini-marsh east of Swanson south of Laketon.
Eastern Towhee - Pipilo erythrophthalmus    1    East of State Game Area headquarters.
American Tree Sparrow - Spizella arborea    8
Chipping Sparrow - Spizella passerina    2
Field Sparrow - Spizella pusilla    4
Vesper Sparrow - Pooecetes gramineus    5    Along Seba Road both north and south of Laketon on the south Wastewater properties.
Fox Sparrow - Passerella iliaca    1
Song Sparrow - Melospiza melodia    18
Swamp Sparrow - Melospiza georgiana    4
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) - Junco hyemalis hyemalis/carolinensis    8
Northern Cardinal - Cardinalis cardinalis    6
Red-winged Blackbird - Agelaius phoeniceus    36
Eastern Meadowlark - Sturnella magna    5
Rusty Blackbird - Euphagus carolinus    12    12 positively ID'd, but probably many more among the mixed blackbirds flying NE over Lane's Landing marsh toward the Maple River.
Brewer's Blackbird - Euphagus cyanocephalus    12    In the dry NE rapid filtration lagoon south of White Road.
Common Grackle - Quiscalus quiscula    6
Brown-headed Cowbird - Molothrus ater    18
blackbird sp. - Icteridae sp.    100    Many flocks flying NE over Lane's Landing marsh toward the Maple River.
House Finch - Carpodacus mexicanus    2
American Goldfinch - Spinus tristis    2
House Sparrow - Passer domesticus    2

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2  (http://ebird.org)

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