Led by Dave Gumbley and Don Heitzman, it was a beautiful sunny day, a first time at High Rock Farm for a number of us. High Rock Farm was a great hot spot with varied habitat's and elevations. We had some great looks at Orioles, Tanagers, Grosbeaks and Indigo Buntings as well as Blue Winged, Yellow Warblers and American Redstart. These are beautiful sightings for everyone, but especially for some of the newer birders in the group. After most folks had departed a few of us heard a Pileated Woodpecker calling. Well worth a revisit and only 20 minutes from Providence!
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Leslie Bostrom led a group of 16 on a 5 mile walk at Great Swamp, through various habitats to and around the impoundment area, giving us good looks at a variety of birds including some early warblers, a kestrel, lingering ring-necked ducks, 7 nesting pairs of osprey and topped-off with a Broad-winged Hawk soaring over the parking lot at the very end of the walk.
Michael Kieron led 7 participants on a walk of the Nature Conservancy's Lime Rock Preserve which has some unique features, soils and interesting history. Michael, a life long Rhode Islander and curator for the Roger Williams Park Natural History Museum, is a geologist as well as birder and knows a lot of local history about many parts of the state. So, in addition to having a pleasant bird walk, including watching a flicker excavating a nesting cavity, we learned a great deal from Michael about the geology and history of the preserve while we walked. The alkaline soils of the area make it the preserve a site for rare flowers that will bloom during the months of June and July inviting a visit during the summer, as well as later in May when migrant birds have arrived.
Leaders: Dierdre Robinson and Jana Hesser
29 species (+1 other taxa) total
Ocean state bird club walk led by Leslie Bostrom at Cumberland Farms Fields --River St. entrance, Plymouth, Massachusetts, US Mar 12, 2016 8:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling, 11 participants 2.5 mile(s) 28 species Canada Goose 1000 American Black Duck 2 Mallard 14 Green-winged Teal 5 Great Blue Heron 1 Turkey Vulture 1 Northern Harrier 6 Sharp-shinned Hawk 2 Red-tailed Hawk 6 Rough-legged Hawk 4 Killdeer 10 Ring-billed Gull 50 Herring Gull 10 American Crow 24 Horned Lark 35 Tufted Titmouse 3 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 American Robin X European Starling X American Tree Sparrow 10 White-crowned Sparrow 1 First winter bird. Song Sparrow 30 Northern Cardinal 4 Red-winged Blackbird many hundreds Rusty Blackbird 1 Common Grackle 10 Brown-headed Cowbird 2 American Goldfinch 2 |
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