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Observation date: 8/27/10
Number of species: 21
Wood Duck - Aix sponsa 20
Great Blue Heron - Ardea herodias 4
Great Egret - Ardea alba 3
Green Heron - Butorides virescens 4
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron - Nyctanassa violacea 1
Red-tailed Hawk - Buteo jamaicensis 1
Killdeer - Charadrius vociferus 2
Mourning Dove - Zenaida macroura 1
Belted Kingfisher - Megaceryle alcyon 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - Melanerpes carolinus 1
Pileated Woodpecker - Dryocopus pileatus 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee - Contopus virens 1
Red-eyed Vireo - Vireo olivaceus 2
American Crow - Corvus brachyrhynchos 4
Barn Swallow - Hirundo rustica 15
Carolina Chickadee - Poecile carolinensis 7
Tufted Titmouse - Baeolophus bicolor 1
Carolina Wren - Thryothorus ludovicianus 3
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - Polioptila caerulea 2
Northern Cardinal - Cardinalis cardinalis 5
Indigo Bunting - Passerina cyanea 1
With the recent drop in temperatures, Friday morning at Oxley was fantastic birding weather.
The North Woods area of Oxley is a fantastic place to see Wood Ducks. The isolated oxbow lakes provide a perfect habitat for the ducks to feed and breed. Wood Ducks are amazingly skittish - it is very difficult to get even remotely close to a group of them for observation.
I have been seeing several Green Herons each time I visit. I have seen them on Oxbow Lake, Mallard Lake, and the unnamed Oxbow near the North Woods trail. On this particular visit I was able to watch one at close range (20 feet) while he eyed the shallows for small fish or amphibians.
I am really looking forward to walking these trails during the fall migration season.
-Photo courtesy of Snowmanradio, via Wikipedia.org
-SPQ 8/28/2010
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