Happy Birding from our Birding Director, Mary Goldsby! Here is her report from the September Bird Survey - as a reminder, all sightings are captured in eBird which is a great resource for aspiring twitchers and pros alike.

“ It was a warm and humid morning, but we did manage to see a few migrating birds.

Birders: 7

Species: 27

Next survey: October 19, 2024 7:30am

Also, I want to congratulate the Girl Scout troops on their pollinator planting bed at the community center, (including replanting after the summer storms). It looks really nice with a variety of native plants and it's doing a great job with attracting pollinators. We saw 2 Ruby-throated hummingbirds (up close) on the pink Turks cap that morning along with several other pollinators including a bumble bee and honey bees. Thank you! “

Septembers birds:

White-winged Dove 10
Mourning Dove 5
Chimney Swift 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2
hummingbird sp. 2
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Neotropic Cormorant 1
Yellow-crowned Night Heron 4
Snowy Egret 1
Great Blue Heron 1
White-faced Ibis 43 2 separate flyover groups (25 in first group and 18 in second group)
Red-shouldered Hawk 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 3
Downy Woodpecker 3
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
Blue Jay 13
Carolina Chickadee 2
Red-vented Bulbul 6
Carolina Wren 7
Scaly-breasted Munia 18
House Finch 1
Baltimore Oriole 3
Great-tailed Grackle 2
Nashville Warbler 1
Blackburnian Warbler 1
Black-throated Green Warbler 2
new world warbler sp. 1
Northern Cardinal 5