I decided to see how many birds I could find at Monkey Run South today. I walked all the trails on the south side of the river and spent quite a bit of time watching from the house. I am now up to 98 species (22 warblers). I only added a single species in the last THREE hours, a Carolina Wren. There are certainly some easier ones like Black-throated Blue Warbler (biggest miss by far--had 6 yesterday, mostly singing too), Louisiana Waterthrush (Ugh!), Yellow-throated Vireo, both cuckoos (unbelievable on an day like this given how much they like to sing in the rain), Great Blue Heron, Winter Wren (not sure they breed on the south side anymore), maybe a White-crowned Sparrow or Field Sparrow. Not to mention raptors and other things that fly overhead; I've only had Red-tailed had Broad-winged Hawk today. Anyway, this is certainly my highest species total at Monkey Run. It is very enjoyable to walk around a relatively small area and see how many birds you can find. As Mark Chao has explained to me, you find more and more every time you go out on the trails even if you are covering the same trails you covered 30 minutes ago.
Hopefully the rain will stop by about 6 or so (or at least not be quite so heavy as now). Bird activity was very good through about 1:00pm. The totals below are the highest number of individuals I saw on any one of my several (5) eBird entries for the day. Canada Goose - Branta canadensis 10 Mallard - Anas platyrhynchos 2 Common Merganser - Mergus merganser 1 Ruffed Grouse - Bonasa umbellus 2 Wild Turkey - Meleagris gallopavo 1 Green Heron - Butorides virescens 2 Broad-winged Hawk - Buteo platypterus 1 Red-tailed Hawk - Buteo jamaicensis 1 American Coot - Fulica americana 1 Killdeer - Charadrius vociferus 1 Spotted Sandpiper - Actitis macularius 2 Rock Pigeon - Columba livia 7 Mourning Dove - Zenaida macroura 4 Eastern Screech-Owl - Megascops asio 1 Great Horned Owl - Bubo virginianus 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - Archilochus colubris 4 Belted Kingfisher - Megaceryle alcyon 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker - Melanerpes carolinus 5 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - Sphyrapicus varius 4 Downy Woodpecker - Picoides pubescens 6 Hairy Woodpecker - Picoides villosus 2 Northern Flicker - Colaptes auratus 1 Pileated Woodpecker - Dryocopus pileatus 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee - Contopus virens 1 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - Empidonax flaviventris 2 Willow Flycatcher - Empidonax traillii 1 Least Flycatcher - Empidonax minimus 1 Eastern Phoebe - Sayornis phoebe 4 Great Crested Flycatcher - Myiarchus crinitus 4 Eastern Kingbird - Tyrannus tyrannus 1 Blue-headed Vireo - Vireo solitarius 2 Warbling Vireo - Vireo gilvus 2 Philadelphia Vireo - Vireo philadelphicus 1 Red-eyed Vireo - Vireo olivaceus 17 Blue Jay - Cyanocitta cristata 14 American Crow - Corvus brachyrhynchos 6 Northern Rough-winged Swallow - Stelgidopteryx serripennis 10 Tree Swallow - Tachycineta bicolor 6 Bank Swallow - Riparia riparia 35 Barn Swallow - Hirundo rustica 1 Black-capped Chickadee - Poecile atricapillus 19 Tufted Titmouse - Baeolophus bicolor 10 Red-breasted Nuthatch - Sitta canadensis 1 White-breasted Nuthatch - Sitta carolinensis 2 Brown Creeper - Certhia americana 3 Carolina Wren - Thryothorus ludovicianus 1 House Wren - Troglodytes aedon 9 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - Polioptila caerulea 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - Regulus calendula 1 Veery - Catharus fuscescens 9 Swainson's Thrush - Catharus ustulatus 4 Hermit Thrush - Catharus guttatus 1 Wood Thrush - Hylocichla mustelina 7 American Robin - Turdus migratorius 13 Gray Catbird - Dumetella carolinensis 33 European Starling - Sturnus vulgaris 7 Cedar Waxwing - Bombycilla cedrorum 25 Blue-winged Warbler - Vermivora cyanoptera 6 Tennessee Warbler - Oreothlypis peregrina 6 Nashville Warbler - Oreothlypis ruficapilla 1 Yellow Warbler - Dendroica petechia 9 Chestnut-sided Warbler - Dendroica pensylvanica 17 Magnolia Warbler - Dendroica magnolia 11 Cape May Warbler - Dendroica tigrina 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler - Dendroica coronata 5 Black-throated Green Warbler - Dendroica virens 1 Blackburnian Warbler - Dendroica fusca 5 Pine Warbler - Dendroica pinus 11 Bay-breasted Warbler - Dendroica castanea 5 Blackpoll Warbler - Dendroica striata 1 Black-and-white Warbler - Mniotilta varia 3 American Redstart - Setophaga ruticilla 21 Ovenbird - Seiurus aurocapilla 8 Northern Waterthrush - Parkesia noveboracensis 1 Mourning Warbler - Oporornis philadelphia 1 Common Yellowthroat - Geothlypis trichas 11 Hooded Warbler - Wilsonia citrina 1 Wilson's Warbler - Wilsonia pusilla 1 Canada Warbler - Wilsonia canadensis 6 Eastern Towhee - Pipilo erythrophthalmus 2 Chipping Sparrow - Spizella passerina 3 Savannah Sparrow - Passerculus sandwichensis 3 Song Sparrow - Melospiza melodia 17 White-throated Sparrow - Zonotrichia albicollis 1 Dark-eyed Junco - Junco hyemalis 6 Scarlet Tanager - Piranga olivacea 2 Northern Cardinal - Cardinalis cardinalis 11 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - Pheucticus ludovicianus 9 Indigo Bunting - Passerina cyanea 1 Bobolink - Dolichonyx oryzivorus 2 Red-winged Blackbird - Agelaius phoeniceus 15 Common Grackle - Quiscalus quiscula 3 Brown-headed Cowbird - Molothrus ater 9 Baltimore Oriole - Icterus galbula 14 Purple Finch - Carpodacus purpureus 1 House Finch - Carpodacus mexicanus 3 American Goldfinch - Spinus tristis 17 House Sparrow - Passer domesticus 1 (stakeout!) Chris Wood eBird & Neotropical Birds Project Leader Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York http://ebird.org http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
