By John Reaume
We had a beautiful day at Kinghurst with an early start at 7:00 a.m. Seven club members joined us on our hike through the mixed forests, grasslands and wet areas on the property. In the end we had a wonderful experience seeing a total of 55 species including 14 species of warblers. We had practice identifying birds by their songs and calls and benefited greatly from the groups collective experience. There were a number of wildflowers in bloom as well including some yellow variants of the Red Trillium. Bird species include:
Bird List (seen)
Double-crested Cormorant
Canada Goose
Turkey Vulture
Wilson’s Snipe
Mourning Dove
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker (I think I was the only one that saw it in flight through dense tree cover)
Least Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Blue Jay
American Crow
Red-eyed Vireo
Veery
American Robin
Brown Thrasher
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
American Goldfinch
Tennessee Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Pine Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird
Common Yellowthroat
Wilson’s Warbler
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Bird List (heard only)
Baltimore Oriole
Brown-headed Cowbird
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Chipping Sparrow
Scarlet Tanager
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Ruffed Grouse
Wild Turkey
Sandhill Crane
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Great-crested Flycatcher
Common Raven
White-breasted Nuthatch
House Wren
Northern Parula
Black-and-white Warbler
Northern Waterthrush
Field Sparrow
