May 14, 2016   Big May Day Bird Count

The day was cold, windy and rainy.  Eleven birders nevertheless participated in the BMDBC in Allen County.  We found 141 species, slightly below average.

Canada Goose
327

Mute Swan
7

Wood Duck
39

Mallard
101

Blue-winged Teal
2

Ring-necked Pheasant
1

Wild Turkey
12

Common Loon
1

Dble-crested Cormorant
22

American Bittern
1

Great Blue Heron
21

Great Egret
1

Turkey Vulture
78

Osprey
2

Bald Eagle
2

Sharp-shinned Hawk
1

Cooper's Hawk
6

Red-tailed Hawk
12

American Kestrel
3

Virginia Rail
4

Sora
6

American Coot
4

Semipalmated Plover
7

Killdeer
33

Spotted Sandpiper
8

Solitary Sandpiper
6

Lesser Yellowlegs
17

Least Sandpiper
2

Short-billed Dowitcher
6

American Woodcock
3

Ring-billed Gull
44

Forster's Tern
13

Rock Pigeon
25

Mourning Dove
66

Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2

Barred Owl
1

Common Nighthawk
2

Chimney Swift
18

Ruby-thr Hummingbird
8

Belted Kingfisher
7

Red-headed Woodpecker
8

Red-bellied Woodpecker
51

Downy Woodpecker
38

Hairy Woodpecker
11

Northern Flicker
32

Pileated Woodpecker
2

Olive-sided Flycatcher
1

Eastern Wood-Pewee
15

Acadian Flycatcher
1

Least Flycatcher
12

Eastern Phoebe
13

Great Crested Flycatcher
31

Eastern Kingbird
9

White-eyed Vireo
2

Bell's Vireo
1

Yellow-throated Vireo
3

Blue-headed Vireo
8

Warbling Vireo
77

Philadelphia Vireo
1

Red-eyed Vireo
36

Blue Jay
58

American Crow
38

Horned Lark
41

Purple Martin
94

Tree Swallow
234

No Rough-winged Sw
107

Bank Swallow
233

Cliff Swallow
52

Barn Swallow
223

Carolina Chickadee
19

Black-capped Chickadee
13

Tufted Titmouse
33

White-breasted Nuthatch
25

Carolina Wren
19

House Wren
42

Marsh Wren
4

Ruby-crowned Kinglet
7

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
33

Eastern Bluebird
36

Veery
7

Gray-cheeked Thrush
6

Swainson's Thrush
69

Wood Thrush
11

American Robin
398

Gray Catbird
74

Northern Mockingbird
3

Brown Thrasher
5

European Starling
413

Cedar Waxwing
6

Tennessee Warbler
56

Orange-crowned Warbler
2

Nashville Warbler
19

Northern Parula
19

Yellow Warbler
43

Chestnut-sided Warbler
22

Magnolia Warbler
37

Cape May Warbler
5

Blk-throated Blue Warbler
5

Yellow-rumped Warbler
34

Blk-throated Grn Warbler
18

Blackburnian Warbler
7

Yellow-throated Warbler
6

Palm Warbler
10

Bay-breasted Warbler
4

Blackpoll Warbler
11

Cerulean Warbler
2

Black-and-white Warbler
11

American Redstart
42

Prothonotary Warbler
2

Ovenbird
13

Northern Waterthrush
3

Louisiana Waterthrush
2

Kentucky Warbler
1

Common Yellowthroat
25

Wilson's Warbler
6

Yellow-breasted Chat
2

Eastern Towhee
8

Chipping Sparrow
52

Clay-colored Sparrow
1

Field Sparrow
11

Vesper Sparrow
2

Savannah Sparrow
3

Song Sparrow
51

Lincoln's Sparrow
3

Swamp Sparrow
3

White-throated Sparrow
18

White-crowned Sparrow
10

Scarlet Tanager
16

Northern Cardinal
97

Rose-breasted Grosbeak
37

Indigo Bunting
34

Bobolink
11

Red-winged Blackbird
440

Eastern Meadowlark
31

Common Grackle
274

Brown-headed Cowbird
104

Orchard Oriole
3

Baltimore Oriole
80

House Finch
40

Pine Siskin
2

American Goldfinch
64

House Sparrow
295