Mary Goldsby, FWP Birder-in-Chief, reported a good winter birding day this last weekend with 30 species and 5 birders, and a total of 176 birds! Their best bird was the Barred owl which cooperated by sitting still allowing clear and longer looks than usual.

The next bird survey will be February 18th at 7:30am. All bird survey dates for 2023 have been loaded onto the FWP calendar online. Click on them to save to your own calendar via a Google or .ics file.

If you are birding on your own, we recommend the Merlin Bird ID app for sound and visual indentification and eBird for tracking and viewing sightings.

If you would like to be added to or removed from the 2023 survey email list, please contact Mary at sprocket211@gmail.com.

January’s BIRDS (all linked to our Bird Catalogue on the FWPO Website):

White-winged Dove 13
Mourning Dove 2
Neotropic Cormorant 4
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 4
Snowy Egret 1
Black Vulture 1
Osprey 1
Cooper's Hawk 1
Sharp-shinned/Cooper's Hawk 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Barred Owl 1
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 3
Downy Woodpecker 4
Eastern Phoebe 1
Blue Jay 10
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3
House Wren 1
Carolina Wren 4
European Starling 8
Northern Mockingbird 1
American Robin 6
Cedar Waxwing 24
White-throated Sparrow 1
Great-tailed Grackle 64
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 4
Northern Cardinal 8