Tuesday, May 8, 2012

36 Species at Hoffmaster This Morning

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I took a pleasant walk around the south Hoffmaster trails this morning recording 36 bird species and six new Year Birds (at 127 now if anybody's counting).
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- Ric
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Hoffmaster State Park, Muskegon, US-MI
May 8, 2012 6:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 mile(s)
Comments:    Foggy Morning Walk
35 species (+1 other taxa)

Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)  1
Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura)  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus)  1
Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens)  2
Hairy Woodpecker (Picoides villosus)  2
Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus)  1
Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe)  1
Great Crested Flycatcher (Myiarchus crinitus)  1
Red-eyed Vireo (Vireo olivaceus)  1
Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)  1
American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)  1
Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)  7
Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor)  2
White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis)  1
Winter Wren (Troglodytes hiemalis)  1    singing
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea)  3
kinglet sp. (Regulus sp.)  7
Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis)  1
Wood Thrush (Hylocichla mustelina)  1
American Robin (Turdus migratorius)  5
Ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapilla)  5
Nashville Warbler (Oreothlypis ruficapilla)  1
Hooded Warbler (Setophaga citrina)  1    singing
Northern Parula (Setophaga americana)  1    singing
Blackburnian Warbler (Setophaga fusca)  1
Black-throated Blue Warbler (Setophaga caerulescens)  1    Male south of Horse Trail 100 yards west of the Homestead Trail alternating songs; there may have been a second bird countersinging 1 of the songs from further west.
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Setophaga coronata)  1
Black-throated Green Warbler (Setophaga virens)  4
Canada Warbler (Cardellina canadensis)  1    singing
Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina)  3
White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys)  1    Taiga subspecies (dark between eye and beak)
Scarlet Tanager (Piranga olivacea)  2
Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)  3
Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Pheucticus ludovicianus)  1
Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater)  7
American Goldfinch (Spinus tristis)  5

This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
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