Nice weather for a bird walk with the temperatures starting out at 8:30 AM at 64 degrees. That's 30 degrees higher than they were last Saturday. We had nine people show up to participate in this outing and, as usual, although it's supposed to be for the campers, none of those that showed up were from the park.
I ended up tallying 31 species. The highlight were the three ospreys on the northeast corner of the lake. They weren't happy when we walked through the area and gave voice to our presence. The one pair wasn't happy with the single bird either so we didn't feel slighted. A little later, we watched as two of the three plucked fish from the lake and returned to the area we had walked through. perhaps, they use it as a roost or they have a nest somewhere in the trees. Until last week, two of them were nesting on a pole near the park entrance but that site has been abandoned--perhaps because it is too close to the road.
We've yet to find the Barred Owl again. Today we heard it call far in the woods--no where near the nest that was used last year and the year before.
Location: Hills Creek SP
Observation date: 5/1/10
Notes: Sunny and warm, 65-75 degrees, with a light breeze developing as we walked.
Number of species: 31
Canada Goose X
Wood Duck X
Mallard X
Wild Turkey X
Great Blue Heron X
Osprey X
Red-tailed Hawk X
Spotted Sandpiper X
Mourning Dove X
Barred Owl X
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) X
Eastern Phoebe X
American Crow X
Tree Swallow X
Black-capped Chickadee X
White-breasted Nuthatch X
House Wren X
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher X
American Robin X
Gray Catbird X
European Starling X
Yellow Warbler X
Yellow-rumped Warbler X
Eastern Towhee X
Chipping Sparrow X
Field Sparrow X
Song Sparrow X
Swamp Sparrow X
Northern Cardinal X
Brown-headed Cowbird X
American Goldfinch X
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
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