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Posted by Trey Mitchell on 21:12:50 09/20/08
Peter an exchange student at UM from the UK assisted me with the count. It was great to have someone with me to help and it helped keep thing interesting because he was able to pick up (17?) life birds today. Otherwise it would have been a fairly uneventful hot morning. We did see several FOS flycatchers at Dump Marsh on the way out to the main pond just past the fence in the depressed area that made my day.
We went to Deering Estate to look for the Yellow Breasted Chat that Toe saw this morning, with no luck. We were however able to add a Sharpy, Merlin and a Trails Flycatcher to Toes list.
After that we helped Toe with Cutler Wetland which was full of bird. Over all it was a great day and it was great to be out birding.
Black Point 7-9 am
Laughing Gull 23
Royal Tern 5
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Semi-Palmated Plover 11
Ruddy Turnstone 10
Least Sandpiper 5
Brown Pelican 1
Double-crested Cormorant 12
Anhinga 1
Killdeer 1
Belted Kingfisher 5
Prairie Warbler 2
Northern Waterthrush 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 5
Bald Eagle 1
Peregrine Falcon 1
Osprey 2
Turkey Vulture 21
Great Blue Heron 12
Great Egret 14
Cattle Egret 32
Snowy Egret 2
Green Heron 1
Little Blue Heron 13
Yellow-Crowned NightHeron 2
Boat-tailed Grackle 16
Shrike 3
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
28 Species 205 Total Birds
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Dump Marsh 9:15 - 11:00 am
Mottled Duck 3
Coot 2
Boat-tailed Grackle 230
Red-wing Blackbird 130
Starling 120
Mourning Dove 65
Shrike 6
Laughing Gull 220
White Ibis 340
Moorhen 6
Great Blue Heron 2
Great Egret 2
Green Heron 1
Belted Kingfisher 2
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Turkey Vulture 38
Black Vulture 4
Alder Flycatcher 1
Trails Sp. 1
Wood Peewee 1
Empidonax Sp. 1
Prairie Warbler 5
Barn Swallow 15
Northern Flicker 2
23 Species 1198 Total Birds
For the two sites we had 43 species and 1403 birds.
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