Registrar: Richard Davis
Participants: 45
Weather: 55 F–66 F, beginning partly cloudy, changing to mostly sunny. East wind 5 mph.
Bird Species: 58
Forty-five Linnaean members and friends joined group leaders on a mild May morning that had a slow-build theme. While many areas of the park seemed deceptively quiet, for the patient observer there were winged discoveries to be made, as well as patches of decent activity, and the challenges of female/immature warbler identification. Many robins’ nests with hungry young were observed. At Turtle Pond, the groups were delighted to see an Eastern Kingbird pair building their nest once again over the dock. And two Green Herons flew sporadically over the water to hideaways under the brush on the far shores.
Species Lists
Birds
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
Mallard
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)
Mourning Dove
Chimney Swift
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Red-tailed Hawk
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Warbling Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Barn Swallow
European Starling
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Swainson’s Thrush
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Cedar Waxwing
House Sparrow
House Finch
American Goldfinch
White-throated Sparrow
Baltimore Oriole
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Black-and-white Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
American Redstart
Northern Parula
Magnolia Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Canada Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Northern Cardinal
Mammals
Eastern Chipmunk
Eastern Cottontail
