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Date: | Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:35:02 -0400 |
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This morning I finally ran out of ways to procrastinate and with gear in hand began the task of cleaning my nest boxes at the Hoover Nature Preserve. This could become a sport known as sloshing as the mud and silt have the consistency of chocolate pudding in many places. After mucking your way to the next box you get to open it and see what surprise it has to offer. Today’s prizes included 4 Little brown Bats, 8 Deer Mice, 12 very large spiders and a first, a flying squirrel. It apparently gnawed at the entrance to enlarge it just enough to squeeze through. But with the work come the rewards - birds.
The area between the Area N roadbed and the end of the Area M boardwalk is showing more mudflat and with it the arrival of shorebirds, abet not high numbers yet but things are looking up. Viewing is best from the Area N roadbed. Area N also yielded some decent warblers this morning. Maintaining he nest boxes and birding don’t mix if one wants to get the nest boxes done quickly. But the conditions were comfortable, mild temperature, low humidity and very few mosquitoes.
Species observed in Area N and on the mudflats at Area M included:
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Green Heron
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Mallard
Red Tailed Hawk
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted sandpiper
Semipalmated sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Ring-billed Gu
ll
Herring Gull
Caspian Tern
Morning Dove
Barred Owl
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Eastern Wood Pewee
Eastern Phoebe
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
American Robin
Gray Catbird
European Starling
Cedar waxwing
Nashville Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Black-and White Warbler
American Redstart
Song Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
American Goldfinch
Charlie Bombaci
Hoover Nature Preserve
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