Willow Slough FWA
May 27, 2017
Thirteen members of Stockbridge Audubon Society made the trek to Willow Slough FWA yesterday, in search of those prairie birds that we don't often get here in the Fort Wayne area. The weather was cool and cloudy when we first started out, but the sun eventually came out, we shed our jackets and long sleeves, and had a great day of birding!
We ended up with a nice list of 86 species for the day. I wasn't officially keeping numbers, but below is our list of species for the day, with my best approximations of the numbers. Field trip leaders - Stephanie Wagner and Dave Reichlinger.
Canada Goose 25
Wood Duck 2
Mallard 10
Northern Bobwhite 3
Ring-necked Pheasant 2
Wild Turkey 2
Great Blue Heron 2
Great Egret 1
Green Heron 1
Turkey Vulture 7
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Killdeer 4
Ring-billed Gull 4
Caspian Tern 6 Flying over J.C. Murphy Lake
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 5
Eurasian Collared-Dove 1 In the town of Parr
Mourning Dove 6
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Black-billed Cuckoo 1
Chimney Swift 10
Red-headed Woodpecker 7
Red-bellied Woodpecker 4
Downy Woodpecker 1
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 2
American Kestrel 4
Eastern Wood-Pewee 9
Acadian Flycatcher 1
Alder Flycatcher 1
Least Flycatcher 1
Eastern Phoebe 2
Great Crested Flycatcher 6
Eastern Kingbird 4
White-eyed Vireo 1
Bell's Vireo 2
Yellow-throated Vireo 5
Warbling Vireo 11
Red-eyed Vireo 7
Blue Jay 6
American Crow 7
Horned Lark 3
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 3
Purple Martin 20
Tree Swallow 12
Barn Swallow 6
Cliff Swallow 1
Tufted Titmouse 2
House Wren 6
Marsh Wren 2
Carolina Wren 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 6
Eastern Bluebird 6
Wood Thrush 4
American Robin 8
Gray Catbird 6
Brown Thrasher 1
Cedar Waxwing 2
Common Yellowthroat 27
Northern Parula 1
Yellow Warbler 16
Blackpoll Warbler 1
Grasshopper Sparrow 12
Henslow's Sparrow 21
Chipping Sparrow 7
Field Sparrow 9
Lark Sparrow 1
Vesper Sparrow 1
Savannah Sparrow 3
Song Sparrow 7
Swamp Sparrow 2
Eastern Towhee 4
Northern Cardinal 5
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 2
Blue Grosbeak 1
Indigo Bunting 8
Dickcissel 28
Bobolink 2
Red-winged Blackbird 30
Eastern Meadowlark 9
Common Grackle 6
Brown-headed Cowbird 4
Orchard Oriole 2
Baltimore Oriole 11
House Finch 1
American Goldfinch 8
House Sparrow 10
John Winebrenner
Fort Wayne
May 27, 2017
Thirteen members of Stockbridge Audubon Society made the trek to Willow Slough FWA yesterday, in search of those prairie birds that we don't often get here in the Fort Wayne area. The weather was cool and cloudy when we first started out, but the sun eventually came out, we shed our jackets and long sleeves, and had a great day of birding!
We ended up with a nice list of 86 species for the day. I wasn't officially keeping numbers, but below is our list of species for the day, with my best approximations of the numbers. Field trip leaders - Stephanie Wagner and Dave Reichlinger.
Canada Goose 25
Wood Duck 2
Mallard 10
Northern Bobwhite 3
Ring-necked Pheasant 2
Wild Turkey 2
Great Blue Heron 2
Great Egret 1
Green Heron 1
Turkey Vulture 7
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Killdeer 4
Ring-billed Gull 4
Caspian Tern 6 Flying over J.C. Murphy Lake
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 5
Eurasian Collared-Dove 1 In the town of Parr
Mourning Dove 6
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Black-billed Cuckoo 1
Chimney Swift 10
Red-headed Woodpecker 7
Red-bellied Woodpecker 4
Downy Woodpecker 1
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 2
American Kestrel 4
Eastern Wood-Pewee 9
Acadian Flycatcher 1
Alder Flycatcher 1
Least Flycatcher 1
Eastern Phoebe 2
Great Crested Flycatcher 6
Eastern Kingbird 4
White-eyed Vireo 1
Bell's Vireo 2
Yellow-throated Vireo 5
Warbling Vireo 11
Red-eyed Vireo 7
Blue Jay 6
American Crow 7
Horned Lark 3
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 3
Purple Martin 20
Tree Swallow 12
Barn Swallow 6
Cliff Swallow 1
Tufted Titmouse 2
House Wren 6
Marsh Wren 2
Carolina Wren 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 6
Eastern Bluebird 6
Wood Thrush 4
American Robin 8
Gray Catbird 6
Brown Thrasher 1
Cedar Waxwing 2
Common Yellowthroat 27
Northern Parula 1
Yellow Warbler 16
Blackpoll Warbler 1
Grasshopper Sparrow 12
Henslow's Sparrow 21
Chipping Sparrow 7
Field Sparrow 9
Lark Sparrow 1
Vesper Sparrow 1
Savannah Sparrow 3
Song Sparrow 7
Swamp Sparrow 2
Eastern Towhee 4
Northern Cardinal 5
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 2
Blue Grosbeak 1
Indigo Bunting 8
Dickcissel 28
Bobolink 2
Red-winged Blackbird 30
Eastern Meadowlark 9
Common Grackle 6
Brown-headed Cowbird 4
Orchard Oriole 2
Baltimore Oriole 11
House Finch 1
American Goldfinch 8
House Sparrow 10
John Winebrenner
Fort Wayne
