2:30 AM - 4:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling
3.0 mile(s)
Comments: Out for a walk along the nature trail, marked by blue triangle markers with egret silhouette down to the river then back.
Weather: cold, grey, slight breeze; sunny later on.
18 species
Canada Goose 30 + grazing on an athletic field off the parking lot.
Mallard 2 pairs then more later.
Common Merganser 1 female.
Cooper's Hawk 1 juvenile, perched in a tree out in the open. Streaked breast with brownish uppers & maybe some white-ish in the coverts, it had a long barred tail with the last bar not terminating at the end, to call it as a Cooper's not sharp-shinned. It flew off before I could get a picture unfortunately.
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 seen & calling also.
Downy Woodpecker 4 approx., throughout the woods.
Black-capped Chickadee X - heard a couple of times.
White-breasted Nuthatch 6 or so in the tree along the path, often very vocal - "quank".
Eastern Bluebird 6 approx., just after turning off the tarmac path in a small dell, flitting about quietly.
American Robin 2
European Starling 50 on the same athletic field with the Canada geese.
American Tree Sparrow 40 approx., just after the red-tailed hawk, in a small marshy area I noticed several tree sparrows, which quickly turned into several more then dozens. There were so many that the sound they were making was like the chirruping of crickets. They eventually moved off amongst the reeds & I later heard them again from the path.
Song Sparrow 6 approx., along the tarmac path, flitting about with a few singing.
Northern Cardinal 2 heard singing.
Red-winged Blackbird 30 + along the path, several singing. On the way back a flock of 30+ were high in the trees with one cowbird amongst them.
Brown-headed Cowbird 1 in amongst the flock of blackbirds seen off the tarmac path.
American Goldfinch 1 in the same area as the bluebirds.
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
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