Toone and Doug Lapham generously donated their house for the Audubon birders to stay in. The first boat on Sundays is at 8:30, which means a lot of the great birding has already come and gone, so having them stay on Dewees was a great way to get a jump start on the day. Thanks, Doug and Toone!
You have already heard about the owling in the pre-dawn hours, but the rest of the day went well, despite the cold. We saw quite a few birds… 88 species, compared to the 74 we saw last year.
Species 2008-9 2009-10
Wood Duck 2
American Wigeon 6 1
Mottled Duck 6 3
Green-winged Teal 1
Scaup spp. 420
Bufflehead 40 5
Hooded Merganser 12 100
Red-breasted Merganser 6
Common Loon 10 5
Pied-billed Grebe 11 25
Horned Grebe 1 2
Northern Gannet 1
Brown Pelican 24 50
Double-crested Cormorant 55 250
Anhinga 1 1
Great Blue Heron 20 25
Great Egret 35 75
Snowy Egret 15 20
Little Blue Heron 7 10
Tricolored Heron 5 10
Black-crowned Night-Heron 13 15
White Ibis 1 200
Wood Stork 1 2
Turkey Vulture 5
Osprey 1 3
Bald Eagle 1 4
Northern Harrier 5 5
Sharp-shinned Hawk 2 1
Cooper’s Hawk 2 2
Red-tailed Hawk 3 1
American Kestrel 1
Clapper Rail 20 3
Sora 1 0
Common Moorhen 3 0
Black-bellied Plover 51 60
Semipalmated Plover 55 350
Piping Plover 1
Killdeer 8 5
American Oystercatcher 7 7
Greater Yellowlegs 25 15
Willet 18 1
Ruddy Turnstone 8 5
Sanderling 12 20
Western Sandpiper 140 0
Least Sandpiper 33 0
Dunlin 190 250
peep spp. 250
Short-billed Dowitcher 235 5
Laughing Gull 8 3
Ring-billed Gull 20 10
Herring Gull 3 2
Great Black-backed Gull 6
Forster’s Tern 26 25
Mourning Dove 23 10
Common Ground-Dove 7 30
Eastern Screech-Owl 2 3
Great Horned Owl 1 4
Belted Kingfisher 6 40
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1
Downy Woodpecker 2
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 15 20
Eastern Phoebe 1 2
Loggerhead Shrike 1 1
Blue-headed Vireo 1
Blue Jay 18 6
American Crow 1
Tree Swallow 65
Carolina Chickadee 2
Carolina Wren 11 3
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1 4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 35 50
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 0
Eastern Bluebird
Hermit Thrush 3 11
Gray Catbird 2 2
Northern Mockingbird 7 6
Brown Thrasher 1 0
European Starling 1
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 826 832
Pine Warbler 1
Palm Warbler 1 0
Black-and-White Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 10 0
Eastern Towhee 10 2
Savannah Sparrow 14 27
Sharp-tailed Sparrow spp. 1
Song Sparrow 38 20
Swamp Sparrow 2 1
White-throated Sparrow 40
Northern Cardinal 50 20
Red-winged Blackbird 140 10
Eastern Meadowlark 4
Common Grackle 1
Boat-tailed Grackle 7 1
House Finch 1 6
House Sparrow 1 0
Species Totals 74 88