April 28 dawned clear and frigid with 15mph winds creating a wind chill that engendered a few complaints from the 7 assembled birders for the SSBC Turkey Hill walk. Our route took us from the 3A parking lot up over Turkey Hill to the Weir River Farm, down along the Weir River and back up to Whitney-Thayer Woods along the Thayer trail to the American Holly grove and back to Turkey Hill and down to the parking lot for a total of 4 miles in 4 hours. It was a slow and quiet morning for finding birds. Our final entry was the best of the day - a non-singing Blue-winged Warbler working the thickets on the path back to the parking lot.
35 species total
1 | Wild Turkey |
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1 | Turkey Vulture |
1 | Cooper's Hawk |
1 | Broad-winged Hawk |
1 | Red-tailed Hawk |
4 | Herring Gull |
1 | Mourning Dove |
2 | Red-bellied Woodpecker |
1 | Downy Woodpecker |
2 | Eastern Phoebe |
6 | Blue Jay |
5 | American Crow |
6 | Tree Swallow |
4 | Black-capped Chickadee |
19 | Tufted Titmouse |
3 | White-breasted Nuthatch |
1 | Carolina Wren |
4 | House Wren |
4 | Eastern Bluebird |
14 | American Robin |
2 | Northern Mockingbird |
12 | European Starling |
1 | Blue-winged Warbler
Non-singing bird working the thickets on Turkey Hill path in a territory used in previous years. Yellow head and body, with black eye line, blue-grey wings with white wing bars.
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1 | Palm Warbler |
4 | Pine Warbler |
5 | Eastern Towhee |
8 | Chipping Sparrow |
3 | Savannah Sparrow |
2 | Song Sparrow |
6 | White-throated Sparrow |
9 | Northern Cardinal |
9 | Red-winged Blackbird |
1 | Brown-headed Cowbird |
4 | American Goldfinch |
30 | House Sparrow |