Sunday morning the sky was clearing for the first time in a long time. I didn’t have the time or inclination for a long trip so I went to Two Rivers Park and was rewarded with a life bird – the Willow Flycatcher. Yay! I started by tramping through the field north of the paved trail to the unpaved horse trail then back for a change in footwear before walking the paved trail to its end and back. In all about 4 miles but about 6 miles worth of steps, according to my pedometer. I found the Willow Flycatcher in the two large plum thickets in that large field. The horse trail was submerged after a while so I couldn’t complete it. Maybe the city would consider building up the low parts of the trail as it is often obstructed.
* = Life Bird
Species seen or heard:
- Canada Goose
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Great Blue Heron
- Great Egret
- Snowy Egret
- Turkey Vulture
- Osprey
- Red-shouldered Hawk
- Mourning Dove
- Northern Flicker
- Pileated Woodpecker
- Eastern Wood-Pewee
- Willow Flycatcher *
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
- Loggerhead Shrike
- White-eyed Vireo
- Red-eyed Vireo
- Blue Jay
- American Crow
- Barn Swallow
- Carolina Chickadee
- Tufted Titmouse
- Carolina Wren
- Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
- Eastern Bluebird
- Gray Catbird
- Northern Mockingbird
- Brown Thrasher
- European Starling
- Pine Warbler
- Mourning Warbler
- Northern Cardinal
- Blue Grosbeak
- Indigo Bunting
