Birding on Pine Creek

We took another bird walk today with members of the Tiadaghton Audubon Society. This time we revisited the rails-to-trails path at Pine Creek/Darling Run west of Wellsboro.

Gary led a group of seven of us along the trail for a couple of miles starting at the parking lot at Darling Run.

Right across the creek from the lot is a Bald Eagles nest and while we watched we saw one of the adult eagles fly in while a second was already at the nest with one or perhaps two very large fledglings. I’ll definitely be going back there soon with the digiscoping equipment.

We had a huge raft of Canada Geese and a smaller clutch of female Common Mergansers (along with one very young one) swim right in front of us in the first few minutes of our walk. Three or four different types of swallows were doing aerial acrobatics over the water as were half a dozen Cedar Waxwings. Several Baltimore Orioles and a couple of Scarlet Tanagers were also present.

Altogether, I recorded 31 species, but I’m sure Gary got a few more than that as Terry and I left early to go shopping for blocks for a retaining wall.

Species List:
Location: Pine Creek/Darling Run
Observation date: 6/28/07
Number of species: 32

Canada Goose 25
Mallard 3
Common Merganser 8
Great Blue Heron 4
Green Heron 1
Bald Eagle 4
Mourning Dove 3
Belted Kingfisher 3
Northern Flicker 1
Eastern Phoebe 1
Eastern Kingbird 4
Blue Jay 2
American Crow 5
Tree Swallow 10
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 6
Barn Swallow 4
Black-capped Chickadee 2
American Robin 3
Gray Catbird 2
Cedar Waxwing 6
Yellow Warbler 1
Black-throated Green Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 2
Scarlet Tanager 3
Eastern Towhee 1
Chipping Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 3
Northern Cardinal 1
Indigo Bunting 2
Red-winged Blackbird 2
Common Grackle 3
Baltimore Oriole 3

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)