Article source for : Magee sightings 5-Sep-2006
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AM Birds seen in the marsh and on the boardwalk for September 5th, 2006
Warblers on the boardwalk
1. Tennessee - 2 (one first fall, one adult)
2. Nashville - 1 (first fall female)
3. Chestnut-sided - 2 (fall plumage females)
4. Magnolia - 7 (6 first fall; one adult)
5. Cape May - 3 - (one first fall female; one adult male & female)
6. Black-throated Blue - 7 (one first fall female, 3 adult females, 3
adult males )
7. Blackpoll - 1 (fall plumage)
8. Black & White - 3 (one male singing! & 2 females)
9. American Redstart - 6 (4 first fall males; 2 adult females)
10. Prothonotary - 1 adult male
11. Common Yellowthroat - 2 (1 adult male & female)
12. Canada - 1 adult female
Other species seen this morning
1. Wood Ducks
2. Mallards
3. Great Blue Herons
4. Great Egrets
5. Green Heron - 3
6. Black-crowned Night Heron - 1 adult up in the cattails!!!
7. Bald Eagle - 1 immature
8. Sharp-shinned Hawk - chasing warblers & other small birds!
9. Cooper's Hawk - attacked a mallard!
10. Sora - calling early off the causeway
11. Greater Yellowlegs - 1 in the marsh
12. Herring Gulls
13. Ring-billed Gulls
14. Mourning Dove
15. Downy Woodpecker - 4
16. N. Flicker - 1
17. Eastern Wood Pewee - 4 still singing!!
18. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 1 at east end of boardwalk again!
19. Great-crested Flycatcher - 1
20. Warbling Vireo - 9
21. Philadelphia Vireo - 3 (nice looks up-close too!)
22. Red-eyed Vireo - 7
23. House & Carolina Wren - 1 each
24. Gray-cheeked Thrush - 1
25. Swainson's Thrush - 4
26. American Robin - 5
27. Gray Catbird - 13
28. N. Mockingbird - 1 (very rare the for Magee Marsh boardwalk)
29. Brown Thrasher - 1
30. E. Starlings - many
31. Song Sparrow - 2
32. Northern Cardinal - many
33. Red-winged Blackbirds - flocks were small today!
34. Common Grackle - flocks were small today!
35. Baltimore Oriole - 2
36. American Goldfinch - 2
37. House Finch - 3 at feeders.
38. House Sparrow - many at feeders.
Mary L. Warren
ODNR-Division of Wildlife
Naturalist
Magee Marsh Wildlife Area
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