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Steere Hill Land Trust on 9/5/14

9/9/2014

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Steere Hill Land Trust, Glocester, RI
9/5/14
6:30-8:45 PM
Leader: Dan Berard
23 participants

While the birding was arguably a little slow, we had some cool birds including a flyby woodcock and some Barred Owls calling back and forth. There was also a fair amount of nocturnal migration; with the quiet and elevation, the top of ‘the hill’ is a good place to listen for migrants in the evening.

This area is also a great spot to listen to and look for singing insects and we were treated to excellent looks at some really cool species like Sword-bearing Conehead, Round-tipped Conehead, a bush katydid, and a singing Broad-winged Tree Cricket. Overall, we recorded 18 species of singing insect, and heard and saw several unIDed ones.

Another highlight was being surrounded by a large number of darners and one pennant darting around doing a bit of mosquito control.

Bats were far less cooperative, with a quick fly by only seen by a few in the group.

Here’s the full trip list:
Birds
  • Canada Goose -  X     Flock heard in distance
  • American Woodcock - 1
  • Barred Owl - 2
  • Downy Woodpecker -  1
  • Eastern Wood-Pewee -  2
  • Warbling Vireo -  1
  • Blue Jay -  1
  • Black-capped Chickadee -  4
  • Tufted Titmouse - 2
  • House Wren -  1
  • Veery > 2     (One bird heard on the ground; later, 3 NFCs heard)
  • Swainson's Thrush -  1
  • American Robin -  6      
  • Gray Catbird - 2
  • Cedar Waxwing - 2
  • Nashville Warbler -  1
  • Common Yellowthroat -  2
  • American Redstart -   NFCs - 4
  • Pine Warbler -  1 warbler sp. - NFCs - (7 unable to discern beyond warbler)
  • Eastern Towhee -  2
  • Song Sparrow -  4
  • Northern Cardinal -  5
  • Indigo Bunting - NFCs - 2
  • Common Grackle - 1
  • American Goldfinch -  1



Insects 
  • Slender Meadow Katydid
  • Round-tipped Conehead
  • Sword-bearing Conehead
  • Oblong-winged Katydid
  • Rattler Round-winged Katydid
  • Northern Bush Katydid
  • Fork-tailed Bush Katydid
  • Common True Katydid
  • Drumming Katydid (After the walk, one of these tiny katydids landed on someone. While they’re non-native, they’re interesting in that they don’t ‘sing’ by stridulating like other katydids, but make noise by stomping on a leaf)
  • Fall Field Cricket
  • Allard’s Ground Cricket
  • Carolina Ground Cricket
  • Two-spotted Tree Cricket
  • Four-spotted Tree Cricket (We saw and heard quite a few of these in the tall grasses)
  • Black-horned Tree Cricket
  • Pine Tree Cricket
  • Broad-winged Tree Cricket
  • Snowy Tree Cricket

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