Radnor Lake
State Natural Area
25
September, 2013
Eighteen
birders participated in today's walk let by Danny Shelton. The rain had stopped
by the time we got under way, but misty, cloudy conditions persisted for the
entire morning making the observing challenging as we continually looked into a
gray background. American Redstarts were the top numbering warbler species. The
bright spot in the gray was a male Summer Tanager perched atop a bare tree near
the Spillway.The red was very obvious.
We spotted
an unusually high number of Black Vultures which had begun settling in a nearby
tree. We had just walked past the tree when we heard a loud snap, then a crash
and the startled flight of numerous vultures suddenly airborne. We assume the
weight of perched vultures was more than the branch could bear and down it
came, leaving the birds instantly in flight.
35 Species
| Canada Goose 12
Wood Duck 20
Wild Turkey 5
Double-crested Cormorant 2
Great Blue Heron 2
Green Heron 3
Black Vulture 41
Mourning Dove 1
Chimney Swift 9
Red-bellied Woodpecker 4
Downy Woodpecker 10
Pileated Woodpecker 4
Eastern Wood-Pewee 3
Empidonax sp. 1
Eastern Phoebe 2
Blue Jay 9
American Crow 1
Carolina Chickadee 16
|
Tufted Titmouse 6
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
Carolina Wren 14
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1
Swainson's Thrush 5
American Robin 18
Gray Catbird 1
Tennessee Warbler 3
American Redstart 9
Magnolia Warbler 7
Palm Warbler 1
Black-throated Green Warbler 3
Eastern Towhee 1
Summer Tanager 2
Scarlet Tanager 1
Northern Cardinal 9
American Goldfinch 2
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Kevin Bowden
