Location:
Oxley Nature Center (North Woods) - Tulsa, OK
Map: http://www.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&ll=36.22655,-95.925257&spn=0.008482,0.013754&t=h&z=16&msid=103228297516276567813.00049013a9d687b207add
Observation date:
9/11/10
Number of species:
21
Wood Duck - Aix sponsa 12
Great Blue Heron - Ardea herodias 1
Green Heron - Butorides virescens 1
Red-shouldered Hawk - Buteo lineatus 2
Belted Kingfisher - Megaceryle alcyon 2
Red-headed Woodpecker - Melanerpes erythrocephalus 3
Red-bellied Woodpecker - Melanerpes carolinus 1
Downy Woodpecker - Picoides pubescens 1
Pileated Woodpecker - Dryocopus pileatus 2
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - Empidonax flaviventris 1
American Crow - Corvus brachyrhynchos 5
Carolina Chickadee - Poecile carolinensis 5
Tufted Titmouse - Baeolophus bicolor 2
Carolina Wren - Thryothorus ludovicianus 3
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - Polioptila caerulea 2
American Robin - Turdus migratorius 45
Gray Catbird - Dumetella carolinensis 1
Yellow Warbler - Dendroica petechia 1
Mourning Warbler - Oporornis philadelphia 1
Wilson's Warbler - Wilsonia pusilla 2
Northern Cardinal - Cardinalis cardinalis 8
Three new species were spotted on my Adopt-a-Trail walk this Saturday (Lifelist #s 185-187).
I spotted the Yellow-bellied Flycatcher just 50-60 yards into the walk. He flew back into the forest and came to perch on a branch within my line of sight. I had to use both my field guide and some photos on the internet to successfully identify the tyrant flycatcher.
15 minutes later I met a fellow birder who was watching the same group of warblers I was. Thanks to his knowledge I learned that their were three types of warblers nearby: Mourning, Yellow, and Wilson's. While we were talking we heard a Gray Catbird and saw a Belted Kingfisher flying across one of the small ponds. It was nice to meet someone so knowledgeable - and someone who was kind enough to point out some mystery birds.
-Yellow-bellied Flycatcher photograph courtesy of Dominic Sherony, via Wikipedia.org
-Mourning Warbler painting from
Birds of New York (New York State Museum. Memoir 12), Albany: University of the State of New York. Plates by Fuertes later reproduced in Birds of America (1917?) by Thomas Gilbert Pearson (1873-1943) et al., Elon Howard Eaton (1866-1935, author), Louis Agassiz Fuertes (artist, 1874-1927)
-SPQ 9/12/2010
