Oxley Nature Center, North Woods (Sierra Club/North Woods/Oxbow Lake Trails) - Tulsa, OK - September 11, 2010

Location: Oxley Nature Center (North Woods) - Tulsa, OK


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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