Saturday March 21st field trip results

We had about 15 participants in the 3-21-2009 field trip to Rock Cut State Park. We started out with great success finding several duck species and a pair of Horned Grebes.

Horned Grebes
Digiscoped at a very long distance

After scanning the lake we headed towards the dam and hiked the bike trail. Birding was a bit slow but we did end up with a fair number of species.

I’m sure I am forgetting some but here is the list I have:

White-breasted Nuthatch
Eastern Phoebe
Mallard
Canada Goose
Northern Cardinal
Turkey Vulture
Brown-headed Cowbird
Bufflehead
American Coot
American Crow
Herring Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Black-capped Chickadee
Horned Grebe
Pied-billed Grebe
Red-winged Blackbird
Song Sparrow
Eastern Bluebird
Great Blue Heron
Common Merganser
Hooded Merganser
Ruddy Duck
White-throated Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Cooper’s Hawk
Sandhill Crane
Hairy Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Blue Jay
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-bellied Woodpecker

34 species