Recap: October 5th Bird Walk

Our second walk of the year was held on Saturday October 5 when Friends of Carpenter’s Woods member Keith Russell led a bird walk through the woods. Favorable weather conditions (warm temperatures, clear skies, and a lack of wind) helped produce an excellent turnout of 22 people, most of whom were new to the FCW walks. While the warm, almost spring like conditions made for pleasant walking conditions, the lack of recent cold fronts probably caused fewer migratory birds to be present in the woods than one normally observes during early October. Nevertheless a respectable total of 43 species were observed during the walk including 10 species of warblers, 5 species of woodpeckers, and 3 flyover Double-crested Cormorants. A complete list of the species observed has been included below. Photographer Nick Guirate also photographed a number of birds during the walk and he has posted some of these on his Flickr page http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_paramaniac/. We’d like to thank Nick for sharing these photos with us.

Canada Goose 3
Double-crested Cormorant 3
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Ring-billed Gull
Mourning Dove 10
Chimney Swift 10
Red-bellied Woodpecker 10
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1
Downy Woodpecker 5
Hairy Woodpecker 3
Northern Flicker 5
Eastern Phoebe 1
Blue Jay 12
American Crow 9
Carolina Chickadee 10
Tufted Titmouse 9
White-breasted Nuthatch 8
Brown Creeper 2
Carolina Wren 6
Winter Wren 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 4
Thrush sp? 1
American Robin 125
Cedar Waxwing 1
European Starling 30
Blue-headed Vireo 2
Red-eyed Vireo 6
Parula Warbler 8
Chestnut-sided Warbler 3
Magnolia Warbler 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler 4
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2
Black-throated Green Warbler 4
Blackpoll Warbler 2
Black-and-white Warbler 3
American Redstart 1
Common Yellowthroat 2
Scarlet Tanager 1
Northern Cardinal 15
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1
White-throated Sparrow 2
American Goldfinch 9
House Sparrow 8