Nature Done Wright

Thanks to a break in the week-long rain, a dozen or so of us had a terrific Celery Farm walk on Saturday morning.

Highlights included an Ovenbird, a Blue-winged Warblers and a first-of-the-year Green Heron.

Some of us also saw a cuckoo (likely Black-billed), fly-over Common Mergs and a fly-over DC Cormormant.

My ebird list follows.

Celery Farm, Bergen, New Jersey, US
May 7, 2016 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.2 mile(s)
Comments:     Fyke/BCAS spring walk
41 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  X
Mute Swan  X
Wood Duck  X
Mallard  X
Common Merganser  X
Double-crested Cormorant  X
Great Egret  X
Green Heron  X
Osprey  X
shorebird sp.  X     Probably a Greater Yellowlegs — far off
Ring-billed Gull  X
Mourning Dove  X
Black-billed Cuckoo  X     (North of the Pirie Mayhood Tower 60 yards,
     other side of stream.  Would have chosen "Cuckoo" species if choice
     was available — no definitive looks
Red-bellied Woodpecker  X
Downy Woodpecker  X
Northern Flicker  X
Eastern Phoebe  X
Warbling Vireo  X
Blue Jay  X
American Crow  X
Fish Crow  X
Tree Swallow  X
Black-capped Chickadee  X
Tufted Titmouse  X
White-breasted Nuthatch  X
House Wren  X
Carolina Wren  X
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  X
American Robin  X
Gray Catbird  X
Brown Thrasher  X     Heard in field  by no-name culvert
European Starling  X
Ovenbird  X
Blue-winged Warbler  X
Yellow Warbler  X
Song Sparrow  X
Swamp Sparrow  X
Northern Cardinal  X
Red-winged Blackbird  X
Common Grackle  X
American Goldfinch  X
House Sparrow  X