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10/17/15 Ninigret NWR

10/20/2015

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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
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Kody L link
4/25/2021 05:24:43 pm

Loved reading tthis thank you

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