Exploring Cumberland - Wednesday, May 10th, 2017

A cool and sunny morning with lots of birdsong! Great looks at Orchard Orioles, Prairie Warblers, multiple Yellow-breasted Chats, Blue Grosbeak and Indigo Buntings. Also, a nice collection of shorebirds, and a gray ghost Northern Harrier. The highlight was a Louisiana Waterthrush picking insects on the roadside. Leaders: Shawn Bamford, Karen Johnson, and Mary Watkins.
Number of Taxa: 67

6 Canada Goose
3 Mallard
2 American Black Duck/Mallard
1 Great Blue Heron
2 Great Egret
4 Snowy Egret
1 Green Heron
3 Turkey Vulture
3 Osprey
1 Northern Harrier
1 Bald Eagle
24 Semipalmated Plover
1 Killdeer
12 Dunlin
20 Least Sandpiper
8 Semipalmated Sandpiper
18 Short-billed Dowitcher
8 Willet
2 Greater/Lesser Yellowlegs
9 Laughing Gull
3 Forster's Tern
3 Mourning Dove
3 Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2 Ruby-throated Hummingbird
4 Acadian Flycatcher
3 Great Crested Flycatcher
5 Eastern Kingbird
8 White-eyed Vireo
4 Red-eyed Vireo
4 American Crow
30 Tree Swallow
20 Barn Swallow
2 Carolina Chickadee
7 Tufted Titmouse
3 Marsh Wren
2 Carolina Wren
5 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
3 Wood Thrush
12 American Robin
5 Gray Catbird
1 Brown Thrasher --
1 Northern Mockingbird
6 European Starling
15 Cedar Waxwing
4 Ovenbird
1 Worm-eating Warbler
2 Louisiana Waterthrush
1 Blue-winged Warbler
4 Black-and-white Warbler
6 Common Yellowthroat
5 Northern Parula
1 Blackburnian Warbler
2 Yellow Warbler
8 Prairie Warbler --
3 Yellow-breasted Chat
6 Seaside Sparrow
4 Chipping Sparrow
8 Eastern Towhee
4 Northern Cardinal
2 Blue Grosbeak
8 Indigo Bunting
25 Red-winged Blackbird
9 Common Grackle
5 Boat-tailed Grackle
4 Brown-headed Cowbird
13 Orchard Oriole
2 American Goldfinch