woodcreeper

This morning in Belleplain State Forest for a quick walk around produced the “first of the year” Louisiana Waterthrush.
Also had alot of Pine Warblers, a few Brown Creepers singing (beautiful song) and a few Eastern Phoebes.
Tarkiln Pond on Weatherby Road had displaying Wood Ducks and a few Tree Swallows flying early

Thanks for reporting, Karen!

Tonight (just got back, 7:47pm) there were the season’s max of woodcocks- totalling 8 displaying at all times…awesome!
Here’s my list from this morning:

Daily Walk Report

Date: 23-Mar-07 WindDesc: none Temp(F): 40

StartTime: 6:45 AM WindDir: CloudCover: none

EndTime: 8:30 AM Location: HMF

Notes: Big migration last night. Many more birds singing. FOS
EASPHO singing by the aviary. MANY BRHECO’s all
around the property. Walked the display fields and woods
loop out to trail behind Saul and Judy’s and the aviary.

English Name Scientific Name

Chickadee sp. Poecile sp.

Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus

Tufted Titmouse Baeolophus bicolor

Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis

Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis

Killdeer Charadrius vociferus

Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus

American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos

Fish Crow Corvus ossifragus

Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata

Yellow-rumped Warbler Dendroica coronata

Pileated Woodpecker Dryocopus pileatus

Red-bellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus

Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia

Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater

Fox Sparrow Passerella iliaca

Common Grackle Quiscalus quiscula

Golden-crowned Kinglet Regulus satrapa

Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe

American Woodcock Scolopax minor

Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis

White-breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis

Field Sparrow Spizella pusilla

Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus

American Robin Turdus migratorius

I spent the morning 3/23/07 at Garret Mt. and boy did things change from yesterday.
Hundreds of birds arrived in the park and spent the morning foraging. Possible Pine Warblers may have been heard on top of Wilson Ave. 44 Species seen by me today. A few more added on byothers.
New arrivals:
2 Great Blue Herons, which spent a short time on New St. Res. before moving on
2 Great Egret, 1 on Barbour’s Pond and 1 flyover

Other highlights
2 Wood Ducks
14 Ring-necked Ducks (New St.)
9 Hooded Mergansers (New St.)
2 Common Merganser (1 male on Barbour’s)
1 Sharpie
1 Cooper’s Hawk
1 Red-tailed Hawk
3 Killdeer (flyover)
8 American Woodcock
1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Wilson Ave.)
5 Northern Flicker (Season High for me)
1 Pileated Woodpecker (Finally saw the rumored bird in the park, Male)
18 Eastern Phoebe (everywhere)
120+ Blue Jays (everywhere, at least 1 mimicking a Flicker, Red-tailed Hawk
and Crow)
1 Brown Creeper (Stables)
800+ Robins (Everywhere, but hundreds on the large field atop the park,
hundreds moved on as well)
2 Eastern Towhees
21 Fox Sparrows (seen in 2’s, 3’s, and 4’s all round the park and Wilson Ave.)
200+ Song Sparrows
300+ Dark-eyed Juncos (everywhere)
13 Rusty Blackbirds (conservative #, there may have been some flying over
this morning, 5 in the wet area, 5-6 off the Bridle Path (white trail))

I talked with Pete Both who birded there in the afternoon and he said he had 4 additional Common Mergansers, American Tree Sparrow, and Golden-crowned Kinglet. He says he flushed at least 8 Woodcock himself and had more in 1 part of the park than I did. So Garret could have held at least a dozen Woodcock of Friday.