Since I went to the Ozark National Forest yesterday, getting up at 4AM and then topped that off with a star party at Pinnacle Mountain State Park getting home at midnight, I decided to sleep in (till 5:45 as it turned out) and go close to home. I chose Cook’s Landing and I think I chose well. I did not see anything exotic, p[perhaps not even anything I haven’t already seen this month, but I did see a lot. In two hours, I saw 42 species which was 12 more than I saw in the entire 6+ hours in the national forest. I walked close to 5 miles according to the pedometer and I was looking for the end during that last mile.
Species seen or heard:
- Killdeer
- Northern Mockingbird
- Common Grackle
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Northern Cardinal
- Carolina Wren
- European Starling
- Wood Duck
- Orchard Oriole
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo
- Purple Martin
- Cliff Swallow
- Barn Swallow
- Swallow sp.
- Eastern Kingbird
- Mourning Dove
- Rock Pigeon
- Blue Jay
- American Crow
- Chimney Swift
- Carolina Wren
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Carolina Chickadee
- Tufted Titmouse
- White-eyed Vireo
- Indigo Bunting
- Eastern Phoebe
- Green Heron
- Yellow-breasted Chat
- Northern Parula
- Summer Tanager
- Red-bellied Woodpecker
- Eastern Meadowlark
- Belted Kingfisher
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
- Fish Crow
- American Robin
- Northern Flicker
- Common Yellowthroat
- Eastern Towhee
- Mallard
- Dickcissel
