Kissena Park, Saturday, 2 Nov 2013 7:30AM-1:15PM
A mild and enjoyable day of relaxed yet intensely focused birding led by
Eric Miller produced some surprising numbers but no real rarities for
the date. Other species encountered were at least half a dozen Norway
rats (very beautiful, if pesky) and a Question Mark/Comma butterfly.
14 Canada Goose
2 American Black Duck
4 Mallard
4 Ring-necked Pheasant
13+ Double-crested Cormorant
1 Great Cormorant
1 Cooper's Hawk
2 Red-tailed Hawk
1 Ring-billed Gull
3 Herring Gull (American)
11 Rock Pigeon
12 Mourning Dove
1 Red-headed Woodpecker
7 Red-bellied Woodpecker
2 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
6 Downy Woodpecker
1 Hairy Woodpecker
2 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)
2 American Kestrel
1 Merlin
14 Eastern Phoebe
3 Blue-headed Vireo
9 Blue Jay
3 American Crow
3 White-breasted Nuthatch
2 Brown Creeper
1 Winter Wren
3 Carolina Wren
6 Golden-crowned Kinglet
16 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
10 Hermit Thrush
27 American Robin
1 Gray Catbird
3 Brown Thrasher
7 Northern Mockingbird
17 European Starling
26 Cedar Waxwing
1 Northern Parula
2 Palm Warbler (Western)
4 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)
1 Black-throated Green Warbler
5 Eastern Towhee
10 Chipping Sparrow
1 Field Sparrow
2 Vesper Sparrow
4 Fox Sparrow (Red)
78 Song Sparrow
10 Swamp Sparrow
122 White-throated Sparrow
4 Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)
8 Northern Cardinal
1 Indigo Bunting
21 Red-winged Blackbird
4 House Finch
7 American Goldfinch
22 House Sparrow
1 Linnet (continuing, seen briefly by a few members of the party)
Patricia Lindsay
Bay Shore
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