Fox Island County Park
April 21, 2018

Thirteen members and friends of Stockbridge Audubon spent two hours birding Fox Island Saturday Morning, and then were joined by a number of students in the Master Naturalist class for some further birding. Our list:

Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Red-Tailed Hawk
Mourning Dove
Barred Owl
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downey Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
American Kestrel
Eastern Phoebe
Warbling Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Bank Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
House Wren
Winter Wren
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Eastern Bluebird
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Brown Thrasher
European Starling 
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Eastern Towhee
American Tree Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

In addition to the above, some birders walked the west end of the park and got the following additional species:
Blue-winged Teal
Bufflehead
Ring-necked Duck
Double-crested Cormorant
Pied-billed Grebe
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Tree Swallow
Palm Warbler
Rusty Blackbird

That makes a total of 56 species for the day, so not too bad. Weather was good, and so was the company!
Eric Helfrich
Sandy Schacht