Pigeon River FWA
March 12, 2022
With our first Stockbridge Audubon field trip of the year, ten birders braved a crazy mix of weather Saturday at Pigeon River FWA in Lagrange County. We went from blue skies one minute to blowing snow and whiteout conditions the next, and then back again. The only weather condition that remained constant was the bone chilling wind.
But ... we still had lots of fun and racked up quite a list of birds for a mid-March field trip. I do not have the total group list available, but I do know that it was right around 60 species. The following is my personal list of the birds that I saw:
(Trip leaders Sam Plew, John Winebrenner)
Canada Goose 200
Mute Swan 4
Trumpeter Swan 4
Wood Duck 8
Northern Shoveler 2
Mallard 10
American Black Duck 2
Northern Pintail 1
Green-winged Teal 8
Ring-necked Duck 57
Bufflehead 7
Common Goldeneye 4
Hooded Merganser 7
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Horned Grebe 1
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 7
Mourning Dove 15
Sandhill Crane 45
Killdeer 2
Ring-billed Gull 1
Great Blue Heron 1
Turkey Vulture 2
Bald Eagle 9
Red-tailed Hawk 6
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 4
Downy Woodpecker 4
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Pileated Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 32 Including 30 in one big flock!
Blue Jay 8
American Crow 30
Black-capped Chickadee 3
Tufted Titmouse 2
Horned Lark 27
Tree Swallow 8
White-breasted Nuthatch 5
Brown Creeper 2
European Starling 25
Eastern Bluebird 6
Hermit Thrush 1
American Robin 4
House Sparrow 2
Lapland Longspur 2
Dark-eyed Junco 12
Song Sparrow 1
Red-winged Blackbird 150
Brown-headed Cowbird 18
Rusty Blackbird 6
Common Grackle 4
Northern Cardinal 8
March 12, 2022
With our first Stockbridge Audubon field trip of the year, ten birders braved a crazy mix of weather Saturday at Pigeon River FWA in Lagrange County. We went from blue skies one minute to blowing snow and whiteout conditions the next, and then back again. The only weather condition that remained constant was the bone chilling wind.
But ... we still had lots of fun and racked up quite a list of birds for a mid-March field trip. I do not have the total group list available, but I do know that it was right around 60 species. The following is my personal list of the birds that I saw:
(Trip leaders Sam Plew, John Winebrenner)
Canada Goose 200
Mute Swan 4
Trumpeter Swan 4
Wood Duck 8
Northern Shoveler 2
Mallard 10
American Black Duck 2
Northern Pintail 1
Green-winged Teal 8
Ring-necked Duck 57
Bufflehead 7
Common Goldeneye 4
Hooded Merganser 7
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Horned Grebe 1
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 7
Mourning Dove 15
Sandhill Crane 45
Killdeer 2
Ring-billed Gull 1
Great Blue Heron 1
Turkey Vulture 2
Bald Eagle 9
Red-tailed Hawk 6
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 4
Downy Woodpecker 4
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Pileated Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 32 Including 30 in one big flock!
Blue Jay 8
American Crow 30
Black-capped Chickadee 3
Tufted Titmouse 2
Horned Lark 27
Tree Swallow 8
White-breasted Nuthatch 5
Brown Creeper 2
European Starling 25
Eastern Bluebird 6
Hermit Thrush 1
American Robin 4
House Sparrow 2
Lapland Longspur 2
Dark-eyed Junco 12
Song Sparrow 1
Red-winged Blackbird 150
Brown-headed Cowbird 18
Rusty Blackbird 6
Common Grackle 4
Northern Cardinal 8
