September 26, 2015   Salamonie Reservoir

​September 26th, eleven birders from Stockbridge Audubon joined our field trip to Salamonie Reservoir. It was a fairly slow day of birding, but we had a couple pockets of birds. We ended up with a total of 48 species. Here is the list, with estimated numbers:

Canada Goose  40
Wood Duck  1
Wild Turkey  1
Double-crested Cormorant  1
Great Blue Heron  3
Turkey Vulture  12
Red-tailed Hawk  5    ( including one really cool albino/leucistic bird)
Killdeer  10
Ring-billed Gull  15
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  6
Mourning Dove  25
Chimney Swift  45
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1
Belted Kingfisher  1
Red-headed Woodpecker  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  3
Downy Woodpecker  2
Hairy Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker  3
Pileated Woodpecker  1
American Kestrel  1
Eastern Wood-Pewee  1
Blue Jay  20
American Crow  30
Carolina Chickadee  5
Tufted Titmouse  3
White-breasted Nuthatch  5
House Wren  1
Carolina Wren  2
Eastern Bluebird  2
Swainson's Thrush  1
American Robin  4
Gray Catbird  2
European Starling  12
Orange-crowned Warbler  1
Nashville Warbler  1
Common Yellowthroat  1
Magnolia Warbler  1
Blackburnian Warbler  1
Black-throated Green Warbler  2
Song Sparrow  1
Northern Cardinal  5
Indigo Bunting  2
Eastern Meadowlark  2
Common Grackle  3
House Finch  4
American Goldfinch  5
House Sparrow  6