Nature Done Wright

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-field time: ~2 hrs; 10 min.
-* indicates my first at CF this year

Location:     The Celery Farm
Observation date:     5/23/08
Number of species:     41+

Canada Goose     X
Wood Duck     6
Mallard     X
Great Blue Heron     1
Green Heron     1
Black-crowned Night-Heron     1
Osprey     2 (1 on Wood Duck Box)
Solitary Sandpiper     1
Mourning Dove     X
Black-billed Cuckoo*     1 (Heard only)  seen by John W.
Red-bellied Woodpecker     1
Hairy Woodpecker     1 (H)
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)     2
Eastern Wood-Pewee*     1 (H)
Willow Flycatcher     2 (H)
Alder/Willow Flycatcher (Traill’s)     1 (probable Alder-"pep" call note)
Least Flycatcher     1
Eastern Kingbird     X
Warbling Vireo     X
Red-eyed Vireo     X (H)
Blue Jay     X
American Crow     X
Tree Swallow     X
Barn Swallow     X
Tufted Titmouse     X
Carolina Wren     X (H)
Veery     2 (1 seen)
Swainson’s Thrush     1
Wood Thrush     X (H)
Gray Catbird     12+
Cedar Waxwing     7+
Yellow Warbler     X
American Redstart     2 (1 female seen)
Northern Waterthrush     4+ (1 seen well)
Common Yellowthroat     X
Wilson’s Warbler     1 (H)
Song Sparrow     X
Northern Cardinal     X
Indigo Bunting*     1 (singing male–rare at CF in spring)
Red-winged Blackbird     X
American Goldfinch     X
also: probable BW Hawk; possible Heard only YB Fly (chu-wee call)