Nature Done Wright

Click "Continue reading…" below for Rob Fanning’s Wednesday morning sightings, including 40+ bobolinks and a Nashville warbler.

Location:     The Celery Farm
Observation date:     9/3/08
Notes:     Also: 2 probable (flyby) RB Grosbeaks, and a falcon sp. (probably Kestrel)
Number of species:     38

Mute Swan     2
Wood Duck     X
Mallard     X
Great Blue Heron     3
Great Egret     1
Green Heron     1 (Heard)
Black-crowned Night-Heron     2 (1 ad, 1 Im)
Rock Pigeon     3
Mourning Dove     X
Ruby-throated Hummingbird     5
Belted Kingfisher     1
Red-bellied Woodpecker     X
Downy Woodpecker     X
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)     X
Alder/Willow Flycatcher (Traill’s)     1
Warbling Vireo     6 Heard–all warbling away!
Red-eyed Vireo     1
Blue Jay     X
American Crow     X (H)
Barn Swallow     2
Black-capped Chickadee     3
Tufted Titmouse     6
White-breasted Nuthatch     X (H)
Carolina Wren     3 (1 seen)
House Wren     X
American Robin     X
Gray Catbird     X
Cedar Waxwing     1
Nashville Warbler     1
Black-and-white Warbler     2
American Redstart     1
Common Yellowthroat     3+ (1 seen)
Song Sparrow     X
Northern Cardinal     X
Bobolink     40+ some nice flocks around bajor field. Had several perched along the culvert/pipe for some nice looks.
Common Grackle     1
House Finch     X
American Goldfinch     X