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