10/17/15 Ninigret NWR

Location: Ninigret NWR, Washington County, Rhode Island, US
Date: Sat Oct 17, 2015 7:30 AM
Party Size: 6
Duration: 3 hour(s), 30 minute(s)
Distance: 4.0 mile(s)
Leader: Dylan Pedro
Comments: OSBC walk at Ninigret. Conditions: Cool (~45-50F), partly cloudy, fair wind from NNW. Decent sized morning flight upon arrival at parking lot
Species: 47 species (+1 other taxa) total

• 215 Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus
• One flyover flock of about 110 around 1030, a few other flyovers, and approximately 100 on Ninigret Pond. No Greats in these groups that I could pick out
• 2 Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias 
• 2 Great Egret Ardea alba 
• 2 Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura 
• 2 Sharp-shinned Hawk Accipiter striatus 
• 1 Cooper's Hawk Accipiter cooperii 
• 3 Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca 
• Vocal flyovers coming from the pond around 830
• 1 Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla 
• Probably an undercount
• 45 Herring Gull Larus argentatus 
• Approximate. Many gull sp. seen very distantly out on the pond.
• 15 Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus 
• Minimum mixed in with the gull sp.
• 110 gull sp. Larinae sp. 
• 2 Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura 
• 3 Downy Woodpecker Picoides pubescens 
• 2 Hairy Woodpecker Picoides villosus 
• 18 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) Colaptes auratus auratus/luteus 
• 1 American Kestrel Falco sparverius 
• 5 Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe 
• 21 Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata 
• 8 American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos 
• 18 Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor 
• 9 Black-capped Chickadee Poecile atricapillus 
• 3 Tufted Titmouse Baeolophus bicolor 
• 0 Red-breasted Nuthatch Sitta canadensis 
• One possibly heard by Scott
• 2 White-breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis 
• 7 Golden-crowned Kinglet Regulus satrapa 
• 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet Regulus calendula 
• 1 Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis 
• Vocal flyover in morning flight
• 3 Hermit Thrush Catharus guttatus 
• 85 American Robin Turdus migratorius 
• Many flyovers throughout the late morning. Very few on the ground.
• 10 Gray Catbird Dumetella carolinensis 
• 1 American Pipit Anthus rubescens 
• Flushed from airstrip
• 14 Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum 
• Morning flight
• 1 American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla 
• Late female, overall gray with yellow-orange markings under wings and on tail, which was typically fanned out.
• 3 Blackpoll Warbler Setophaga striata 
• A couple in morning flight, at least one perched nicely for us.
• 1 Palm Warbler (Yellow) Setophaga palmarum hypochrysea 
• 150 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) Setophaga coronata coronata 
• Conservative estimate. Omnipresent. Several dozen in morning flight.
• 2 Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina 
• 6 Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) Junco hyemalis hyemalis/carolinensis 
• 1 White-crowned Sparrow (leucophrys) Zonotrichia leucophrys leucophrys 
• Immature
• 18 White-throated Sparrow Zonotrichia albicollis 
• 17 Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia 
• 15 Swamp Sparrow Melospiza georgiana 
• 6 Eastern Towhee Pipilo erythrophthalmus 
• 6 Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis 
• 18 Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus 
• Mostly flyovers, a few in morning flight
• 3 Common Grackle Quiscalus quiscula 
• Morning flight
• 45 House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus 
• 0 Purple Finch Haemorhous purpureus 
• Probably undercounted
• 1 Pine Siskin Spinus pinus 
• Vocal (presumably) flyover around 1050 at the Kayak Launch. Heard upsweeping "zreeeeeep!" much harsher and longer-lasting than that of an American Goldfinch
• 3 American Goldfinch Spinus tristis