20 people came out this morning for a Columbia Audubon Society birdwalk. A lot of the migrant birds haven’t arrived yet, but we still managed to identify 52 different species (List below).
We will have the annual PGT birdwalk next Saturday (April 28). We will start at the PGT Visitor Center at 7AM. If you’re interested in attending let me know. The leader will be Lottie Bushman.
What we saw today:
4 Wood Duck
2 Blue-winged Teal
3 Wild Turkey
1 Double-crested Cormorant
1 Great Blue Heron
16 Turkey Vulture
1 Sharp-shinned/Cooper’s Hawk
1 Broad-winged Hawk
1 Virginia Rail
2 Killdeer
1 Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)
10 Mourning Dove
3 Great Horned Owl
1 Belted Kingfisher
8 Red-bellied Woodpecker
3 Downy Woodpecker
3 Northern Flicker
2 Pileated Woodpecker
3 American Kestrel
5 Eastern Phoebe
15 Blue Jay
3 Northern Rough-winged Swallow
1 Tree Swallow
10 Barn Swallow
3 Black-capped Chickadee
7 Tufted Titmouse
4 White-breasted Nuthatch
1 Brown Creeper
5 Carolina Wren
9 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
17 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
9 Eastern Bluebird
4 Brown Thrasher
1 European Starling
5 Louisiana Waterthrush
3 Black-and-white Warbler
1 Common Yellowthroat
4 Northern Parula
2 Palm Warbler
10 Yellow-rumped Warbler
1 Yellow-throated Warbler
1 Black-throated Green Warbler
1 Chipping Sparrow
14 Field Sparrow
1 Song Sparrow
8 Swamp Sparrow
2 Eastern Towhee
7 Northern Cardinal
1 Eastern Meadowlark
13 Red-winged Blackbird
9 Brown-headed Cowbird
1 House Finch
1 American Goldfinch