We had an amazing turnout and beautiful weather for yesterday’s walk.  Twenty people (including Jim and myself) showed up and we spent nearly 3 hours wandering about 1.6 miles over flat, mostly open grassland and low shrubs.  The map of where we walked is shown below.

We saw a total of 42 species including great looks at Bobolinks – both male and female (as well as great listens to their amazing call).

We also had great looks at a group of Cedar Waxwings in a low tree with berries.  A Green Heron sat nicely in a dead tree in the swamp area also giving us great looks at this beautiful bird.  In that same area, but further back, there were 5 or 6 Great Blue Heron nests in a rookery, and we could see with our scopes that there were babies in the nest and a pair of Wood Ducks swimming below. Yellow Warblers and Common Yellowthroats also gave us some good looks and Tree Swallows flew all around us!
This was a new trip this year and it was a good addition to the HAS member led trips.
Chris Fisher
Jim Watso
Bird List
4 Canada Goose
2 Wood Duck
6 Mallard
2 Mourning Dove
2 Chimney Swift
1 Double-crested Cormorant
2 Green Heron
11 Great Blue Heron
1 Turkey Vulture
1 Red-tailed Hawk
1 Red-bellied Woodpecker
1 Downy Woodpecker
1 Northern Flicker
1 Eastern Wood-Pewee
2 Willow Flycatcher
1 Eastern Phoebe
1 Great Crested Flycatcher
1 Eastern Kingbird
2 Warbling Vireo
2 Blue Jay
1 Tufted Titmouse
14 Tree Swallow
1 Barn Swallow
3 Gray Catbird
2 Northern Mockingbird
1 Eastern Bluebird
1 Veery
1 Wood Thrush
3 American Robin
5 Cedar Waxwing
4 American Goldfinch
10 Song Sparrow
1 Eastern Towhee
6 Bobolink
2 Baltimore Oriole
20 Red-winged Blackbird
3 Brown-headed Cowbird
1 Blue-winged Warbler
5 Common Yellowthroat
6 Yellow Warbler
1 Scarlet Tanager
2 Northern Cardinal

Number of Taxa: 42