Friday Birding

I went out with the new camera this morning to both bird and photograph. Got a lot of the birding done at two separate locations but not a whole lot of bird pictures to go with it.

I walked the old railroad bed adjacent to Crooked Creek from the bridge at the Ive’s Run entrance to Hammond Lake west ward to the cultivated fields for the Game Management Unit #37 this morning. Here’s what I saw in terms of birds in two and a half hours:


Location: Ive's Run-Crooked Creek
Observation date: 8/1/08
Notes: Cool, clear morning with a starting temperature of 60 degrees (it got up to 70 before I moved on). Very little wind.
Number of species: 35

Wood Duck X
Great Blue Heron X
Turkey Vulture X
Osprey X
Bald Eagle X
Red-tailed Hawk X
Killdeer X
Mourning Dove X
Ruby-throated Hummingbird X
Belted Kingfisher X
Hairy Woodpecker X
Blue-headed Vireo X
Blue Jay X
American Crow X
Tree Swallow X
Black-capped Chickadee X
Tufted Titmouse X
White-breasted Nuthatch X
Eastern Bluebird X
American Robin X
Gray Catbird X
European Starling X
Cedar Waxwing X
Yellow Warbler X
American Redstart X
Common Yellowthroat X
Eastern Towhee X
Savannah Sparrow X
Song Sparrow X
Northern Cardinal X
Rose-breasted Grosbeak X
Indigo Bunting X
Red-winged Blackbird X
Common Grackle X
American Goldfinch X

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

Then I drove south on Rt. 287 to the Muck for another short stint.

An hour at the Muck off Rt. 287 west of Wellsboro produced the following:

Location: Marsh Creek/The Muck IBA
Observation date: 8/1/08
Notes: Mid-day but lots of Green Herons about--at least 6 rose from the grass as I walked out to the blind. Two belted kingfishers fished by hovering and then rested on the wires across the marsh.

Number of species: 16

Wood Duck X
Blue-winged Teal X
Great Blue Heron X
Green Heron X
Turkey Vulture X
American Kestrel X
Mourning Dove X
Belted Kingfisher X
Northern Flicker X
Least Flycatcher X
Blue Jay X
American Crow X
Gray Catbird X
Swamp Sparrow X
Red-winged Blackbird X
American Goldfinch X

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


Not too shabby a morning.