From: Marie Plante 
Subject: Pennyfield walk
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 19:57:06 -0400





Here is today's bird count at Pennyfield.  After everyone else left around 11, I continued on to Block House Point.  The birds that I saw or heard by myself are marked with an asterisk.
 
54 species
 
Double-crested cormorant
Gt. blue heron
Green heron 
Great egret
Canada goose
Mallard* 
Wood duck (heard)
Red-breasted merganser
Turkey vulture
Black vulture*
Red-shouldered hawk
Killdeer* (heard)
Solitary sandpiper* (at Blockhouse Pt.)
Spotted sandpiper* (same location as above)
Mourning dove
Ruby-throated hummingbird
Northern flicker
Pileated woodpecker (heard)
Red-bellied woodpecker
Hairy woodpecker*
Eastern kingbird
Gt. crested flycatcher
Eastern phoebe
Acadian flycatcher*
Eastern pewee (heard)
Tree swallow
N. rough-winged swallow
Barn swallow*
Blue jay
American crow
Carolina chickadee
Tufted titmouse
Carolina wren
Gray catbird
American robin*
Wood thrush (heard)
Blue-gray gnatcatcher
Cedar waxwing
European starling
Northern parula warbler (heard)
Red-eyed vireo (heard)
Ovenbird (heard)
Common yellowthroat
Canada warbler*
Red-winged blackbird
Orchard oriole
Baltimore oriole
Brown-headed cowbird
Scarlet tanager* (heard several and saw a male & female)
Northern cardinal
Rose-breasted grosbeak* (heard and saw a male & saw a female)
Blue grosbeak (male seen & heard)
Indigo bunting
American goldfinch
 
PLEASE NOTE:  I am switching next week's walk from Hughes Hollow to Riley's Lock (Seneca) because wild turkey hunting will still be allowed at Hughes Hollow until May 23rd.  We will bird at Hughes Hollow on the Tuesday, the 24th.   
 
 
 
 
  		 	   		  
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