Baillie Birdathon - 2001

Posted by Joyce & James MacKenzie on May 24, 2001 at 20:16:34:

The following is the species observed over a 24 hour period, May 17/18 2001 for the Baillie Birdathon. If you are interested in the locations each bird was observed, that is also available.

Common Loon, Double Breasted Cormorant, American Bittern, Great Blue Heron, Turkey Vulture, Mute Swan, ( clipped on Dr Prodan's pond) Canada Goose, Wood Duck, American Black Duck, Common Merganser, Northern Harrier, Broad Winged Hawk, American Kestral, Merlin, Ruffed Grouse, Sandhill Crane, Killdeer, Spotted Sandpiper, Common Snipe, American Woodcock, Ring-Billed Gull, Herring Gull,Caspian Tern, Rock Dove, Mourning Dove, Long Eared Owl, Northern Saw-whet Owl, Ruby-Throat Hummingbird, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Downy woodpecker, Hairy Wood Pecker, Northern Flicker, Pileated Woodpecker, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Alder Flycatcher, Least Flycatcher, Eastern Phoebe, Great Crested Flycatcher, Eastern Kingbird, Philadelphia Vireo, Red-eyed Vireo, American Crow, Common Raven, Tree Swallow, Cliff Swallow, Barn Swallow, Black-capped Chickadee, White-breasted Nuthatch, Winter Wren, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Eastern Bluebird, Hermit Thrush, American Robin, Gray Catbird, American Pipit, Cedar Waxwing, European Starling, Nashville Warbler, Northern Parula Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Magnolia Warbler, Black-throated Blue Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Black-throated Green Warbler, Blackburnian Warbler, Black & White Warbler, American Redstart, Ovenbird, Common Yellowthroat, Chipping Sparrow, Vesper Sparrow, Savannah Sparrow, Le Conte Sparrow, Song Sparrow, Lincoln Sparrow, Swamp Sparrow.

White-throat Sparrow, White-crown Sparrow, Bobolink, Red-wing Blackbird, Rusty Blackbird, Brewers Blackbird, Common Grackle, Brown-headed Cowbird, Baltimore Oriole, Purple Finch, Pine siskin, American Goldfinch, Evening Grosbeak.

Please forgive any typos in this report and a thank you to all the members who gave us support. Thanks to Steve van Duin, for calling us when the Bluebirds & Kill Deer were at the riding arena and a special thank you to Erwin Meissner, who took me(Joyce), again this year on his Warbler survey. JR and I birded morning, afternoon and well into the evening to get the Owls. It was a great experience, even with the "Black Flies"!

Joyce & James MacKenzie