Hi all,

We had beautiful weather for our bird walk this morning -- blue skies,
unseasonably warm weather.  The group covered about two miles in the north
part of Glen Helen, going past the Yellow Spring to the Baldwin Pond
Meadow, and back past the bird blind and Birch Creek Cascades.  And,
although we didn't find a huge diversity of birds, the overall abundance
was as high as I've ever seen.

We found sizable flocks of robins, grackles, red-winged blackbirds, and
waxwings.  Also multiple multiple winter wren and golden-crowned kinglet
sightings.  Really, nearly everything we saw, we saw more than one of.
Estimates below are crude, but give an idea.

Here's the list:
Turkey vulture (1)
Mourning dove (1)
Red-bellied woodpecker (4)
Downy woodpecker (4)
Northern flicker (3)
Blue-headed vireo (2)
Blue jay (3)
American crow (1)
Carolina chickadee (15)
Tufted titmouse (18)
White-breasted nuthatch (10)
Carolina wren (3)
Winter wren (3)
Golden crowned kinglet (4)
American robin (25)
Gray catbird (1)
Eurasian Starling (50)
Cedar waxwing (25)
Blackburnian warbler (3)
Eastern towhee (4)
White-throated sparrow (1)
Northern cardinal (8)
Red-winged blackbird (25)
Common grackle (20)

Definitely worth getting out of bed for...

-Nick

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Nick Boutis
Executive Director

Glen Helen Ecology Institute
405 Corry St.
Yellow Springs, OH 45387

Visit us online, at www.glenhelen.org


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