Yesterday morning Darke County Park's 'Early Morning Discovery Hike' was an
great experience!

The trees seemed to be 'alive' with birds and as you can imagine, this
limited the distance covered during our hike!

We had a couple 'Fall Firsts':  The park's first White-throated Sparrow and
Red Breasted Nuthatch.

As we wrapped up the walk, there was a HUGE flock of Common
Grackles(possibly other blackbirds as well...) across
from the parking lot in the woods...anywhere you looked all you could see
were black dots!


Below is the full list of birds we spotted during the walk.

If you are in the Greenville area, check out our next walk on Oct. 16th @
8am at the Shawnee Prairie Preserve's Nature Center.

Location: DCP - Shawnee Prairie Preserve
Observation date:  10/2/07
Notes: * Possible Blackpoll Warbler as well...unable to confirm.*
Number of species:  29

Killdeer
Mourning Dove
Chimney Swift  <- TONS flying over the south field, and low over the Hill.
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Eastern Phoebe
Blue Jay
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Red-breasted Nuthatch   <- spotted at least one
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper  <- First for Fall!
Carolina Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing   <- Lots checking out the cedar fruit
Northern Parula
Black-throated Green Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler  <-  Very Cool!
Chipping Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow  <- First for Fall!
Northern Cardinal
Common Grackle   <- HUGE flock!!
Brown-headed Cowbird
House Finch
American Goldfinch

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2( http://ebird.org)

--
Robb Clifford
- Naturalist -

Darke County Parks
www.darkecountyparks.org

"We need another and a wiser, and perhaps a more mystical concept of
animals.  Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice,
man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge
and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion.  We
patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having
taken a form so far below ourselves.  And therein we err, and greatly
err.  For the animal shall not be measured by man.  In a world older and
more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with
extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we
shall never hear.  They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are
other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow
prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth."
-Outermost House by Henry Beston-

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