A gorgeous day for birding, and 16 of us set out birding Irvine Nature Center on a Chesapeake Audubon field trip. One of the best highlights happened at the beginning--a Merlin looking to be chowing down on a bird at the top of a distant tree--fortunate that Bob Ringler had his scope. The variety of birds was, I think, a little less than what it has been of late, but still a nice bunch of birds, some, the expected, in great numbers. 8 sparrow species. No sedge wren. No Lincoln's. We got a few Fox Sparrows. We enjoyed the music of a huge thick collection of Goldfinch we ran into at the end. One bush afforded us very long and very close studies of both kinglets (and their crowns) and yellow-rumped.
(Participants: Ruth Bergstrom, Kye Jenkins, Bob Ringler, Keith Costley, Debbie Terry, Doris Leake, Sherrye Walker, Justus Garman, Peter and Mary Ellen Smith, Janice and George, Larry Brammer, Anne, Dan Summerhill, Tim Houghton
55 species)
Some of the birds:
Black Vulture 6
Cooper's Hawk 1
Bald Eagle 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Killdeer 1
Eastern Screech-Owl 1
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Merlin 1
Blue-headed Vireo 2
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Brown Creeper 1
Winter Wren 2
Golden-crowned Kinglet 12
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 40
Cedar Waxwing 22
Black-throated Blue Warbler 1
Palm Warbler 15
Yellow-rumped Warbler 15
Fox Sparrow 3
White-crowned Sparrow 8
Purple Finch 12
Pine Siskin 18
Tim Houghton
(Glen Arm)
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