Nature Done Wright

  Click "Continue reading" for Rob’s Celery Farm sightings for Wednesday.

-field time: ~2 hrs. 5 min.
-* indicates my first at CF this year

Location:     The Celery Farm
Observation date:     5/21/08
Number of species:     40

Canada Goose     X
Wood Duck     X
Mallard     X
Great Blue Heron     1
Great Egret     1
Black-crowned Night-Heron     2 (1 ad. 1 Im)
Spotted Sandpiper     1
Solitary Sandpiper     2
Mourning Dove     X
Chimney Swift     X
Ruby-throated Hummingbird     1 (female)
Hairy Woodpecker     X
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)     X
Alder Flycatcher     1 (singing–Warbler Alley) Likely saw it as well  but it never vocalized when I was looking at it.
Alder/Willow Flycatcher (Traill’s)     1
Least Flycatcher     1 (H)
Eastern Kingbird     2
Warbling Vireo     X (H)
Red-eyed Vireo     X (H)
Tree Swallow     X
Barn Swallow     X
Black-capped Chickadee     X
Tufted Titmouse     X (H)
Wood Thrush     3 (3 singing, 1 seen)
Swainson’s Thrush*   1
Cedar Waxwing     X
Yellow Warbler     X
Chestnut-sided Warbler*     1 (singing male)
Magnolia Warbler     1 (singing male)
Black-throated Blue Warbler     1 (H)
Pine Warbler     1 (H) likely nesting across street from CF
American Redstart     3+ (2 males seen)
Northern Waterthrush     10+ 1 seen well
Common Yellowthroat     X
Wilson’s Warbler     3 (2 males seen–both high in trees)
Canada Warbler     2 (H)
Song Sparrow     X
Northern Cardinal     X
Red-winged Blackbird     X
Common Grackle     X
Baltimore Oriole     X
also Fred W. saw a Grey-cheeked Thrush