Interesting couple of hours at the stormwater ponds, with a good movement of Blue Jays in progress - logged over 250! Also my first Prairie Warbler for the ponds. Some photos later.
chlorophonia
Sep 22, 2012
Wheaton Branch Stormwater Ponds
Traveling
0.77 miles
126 Minutes
Observers: 1
All birds reported? Yes
Comments: 4/8 cloud cover early, clearing later. SE force 2, 70 F.
2 Canada Goose
19 Mallard
1 Great Blue Heron
1 Green Heron
2 Black-crowned Night-Heron
2 Turkey Vulture
1 Cooper's Hawk
3 Rock Pigeon
23 Mourning Dove
8 Chimney Swift
2 Belted Kingfisher
8 Red-bellied Woodpecker
1 Downy Woodpecker
7 Northern Flicker
1 Eastern Wood-Pewee
1 Eastern Phoebe
260 Blue Jay -- Small loose groups moving SE at treetop level or higher. Max group size 32, couple groups of 20-odd, mostly single digit-sized groups.
17 American Crow
8 Fish Crow
2 Tufted Titmouse
2 White-breasted Nuthatch
4 Carolina Wren
2 House Wren
31 American Robin
7 Gray Catbird
4 Northern Mockingbird
20 European Starling
2 Northern Parula
1 Chestnut-sided Warbler
1 Magnolia Warbler
1 Prairie Warbler
2 American Redstart
3 Common Yellowthroat
3 Song Sparrow
6 Northern Cardinal
3 Common Grackle
3 House Finch
1 House Sparrow
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