Birds seen on 2/6/01 field trip to Waites Island
Some of these were only seen by a few observers.
Please add the bold faced birds to the list of "quiz birds" - ones you are responsible for recognizing by sight. With the ones from the HBSP field trip, there should be about 20 "quiz birds" on your list.
1 Brown Pelican
1 Double-crested Cormorant
1 Great Egret
[1Great Blue Heron, on drive]
40 Scoters (including Surf Scoters and probably Black Scoters)
2 Bufflehead
3 Long-tailed Duck
3 Red-breasted Merganser
15 Turkey Vulture (on drive)
1 Sharp-shinned Hawk
1 Cooper's Hawk
1 Am. Kestrel (on drive)
1 Red-tailed Hawk (on drive)
2 Northern Harrier (females)
75 Semipalmated Plover
1 Kildeer (on drive)
1 Piping Plover
1 Willet
3 Greater Yellowlegs
4 Western Sandpiper
75 Dunlin
13 Sanderling
20 Dowitcher, sp. (probably Short-billed)
5 Ring-billed Gull
3 Herring Gull
1 Great Black-backed Gull
1 Bonaparte's Gull
3 Mourning Dove (on drive)
1 Carolina Chickadee (heard only)
2 E. Bluebird (on drive)
80 Am. Robin
4 N. Mockingbird
75 European Starling (on drive)
40 Yellow-rumped Warbler
1 Song Sparrow
1 White-throated Sparrow
60 Red-winged Blackbird