Today I led a morning bird walk at Highbanks Metro Park in  Delaware
County. The park’s intern naturalist and I were joined by about 14  intrepid
souls. The activity was  mixed with a few hot spots and many dead  zones, but we
still managed to tally a respectable list. We did prove the theory  that
this is an active tick season after we wandered off the trail. I knocked  more
ticks off my trousers today than I’d seen the last several years combined
and for good measure I took the last one off the back of my neck after I
sensed  the little devil climbing for new heights. Moral, stay on the trails,
use DEET  and tuck trousers into socks if you are in tick habitat.

The highlights in my opinion were a Yellow-billed Cuckoo that  was
unusually cooperative for the entire group, a brilliant colored male Canada  Warbler
and a very loud Yellow-breasted Chat. That’s not to take away from the
rest of the species we located. The list of species that members of the group
tallied follows.

 1. Turkey Vulture
2. Cooper’s Hawk
3.  Mourning Dove
4. Yellow-billed Cuckoo
5. Chimney  Swift
6. Ruby-throated Hummingbird
7. Red-bellied  Woodpecker
8. Downy Woodpecker
9. Eastern Wood-Pewee
10.  Acadian Flycatcher
11. Alder Flycatcher [observed by Rob Thorn who we met  during the walk -
but worth passing along]
12. Least Flycatcher
13.  Eastern Phoebe
14. Great Crested Flycatcher
15. Eastern Kingbird
16.  Red-eyed Vireo
17. Blue Jay
18. American Crow
19. Tree Swallow
20.  Barn Swallow
21. Carolina Chickadee
22. Tufted Titmouse
23.  White-breasted Nuthatch
24. House Wren
25. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
26.  Eastern Bluebird
27. Veery
28. Swainson’s Thrush
29. Wood Thrush
30.  American Robin
31. Gray Catbird
32. Brown Thrasher
33. European  Starling
34. Cedar Waxwing
35. Northern Parula
36. Yellow  Warbler
37. Chestnut-sided Warbler
38. Magnolia Warbler
39.  Yellow-rumped Warbler
40. American Redstart
41. Ovenbird
42. Louisiana  Waterthrush [heard only]
43. Common Yellowthroat
44. Canada Warbler
45.  Yellow-breasted Chat
46. Summer Tanager
47. Scarlet Tanager
48. Eastern  Towhee
49. Chipping Sparrow
50. Field Sparrow
51. Northern  Cardinal
52. Indigo Bunting
53. Red-winged Blackbird
54. Common  Grackle
55. Brown-headed Cowbird
56. Orchard Oriole
57. Baltimore  Oriole
58. American Goldfinch
59. House Sparrow


Charlie Bombaci

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