Saturday Bird Walk, April 16, 2011

I joined Gary on the weekly Hills Creek State Park bird walk this morning. Just him, me, two rangers and one fella from southern PA who came up to his hunting camp and decided to bird instead of go fishing with his buddies. I can't say I blame him. It was wet, windy, cold--just about what you'd expect for opening day of the trout season.

All in all, however, we didn't have too bad a morning. Although the wind and rain chilled us to the bone, we still managed to spot some 25 species including a couple of Bald Eagles, an Osprey and quite a few water fowl including a Loon and a rarity: a Red-necked Grebe.

Here's the report I made to eBird:


Location: Hills Creek SP
Observation date: 4/16/11
Notes: A windy (30-40 mph), chilly (40 degrees), rainy morning. Birded at the beach area and at the campers boat launch area. Didn't stray to far into the woods.
Number of species: 25

Canada Goose X
Wood Duck X
Mallard X
Ring-necked Duck X
Bufflehead X
Hooded Merganser X
Common Merganser X
Common Loon X
Red-necked Grebe X
Great Blue Heron X
Turkey Vulture X
Osprey X
Bald Eagle X
Ring-billed Gull X
Northern Flicker X
Eastern Phoebe X
Blue Jay X
American Crow X
Tree Swallow X
Black-capped Chickadee X
American Robin X
European Starling X
Song Sparrow X
Dark-eyed Junco X
Red-winged Blackbird X

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