DC Audubon held its Big Day at the Jean Ellen duPont Shehan Audubon
Sanctuary near St. Michaels, MD on Saturday, 3 May.  The weather was
gorgeous and warm and we tallied nearly 80 species.  Highlights-

 

Warblers:

Nashville

Pine

Yellow

Magnolia

Ovenbird

Prairie

Worm-eating

Yellow-rumped

American Redstart

Common Yellowthroat

 

Shorebirds:

Semipalmated Plover

Semipalmated Sandpiper

Least Sandpiper

Dunlin

Greater & Lesser Yellowlegs

Pectoral Sandpiper

 

Brown-headed Nuthatch

Horned Lark

Savannah, Field & Chipping Sparrow

Bald Eagle

Osprey

Red-tailed Hawk

Merlin

Orchard Oriole

Indigo Bunting

Blue Grosbeak

Eastern Kingbird

Tree & Barn Swallows

Chimney Swifts

Cedar Waxwings

Pileated Woodpecker

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

White-eyed & Red-eyed Vireo

Scarlet Tanager

Brown Thrasher

Wood Thrush

Wild Turkey

Carolina Wren (FOY)

 

 

 

Mary Pfaffko

Wildlife Biologist

DC Fisheries & Wildlife

District Department of the Environment

51 N Street, NE 5th floor

Washington, DC 20002

202-535-1739 (telephone)
202-535-1373 (fax)