I got up early this morning so I could get to Craighead and got there at 7:35. It was cloudy, had been raining, and looked like it would do so again. I ran into Ron Howard, whom I had met once before, and we chatted a bit before continuing our personal quests. I started at the ball field and disk golf courses and then went down to the nature center from which I walked all the major trails. In all, I was there just over 5 hours and walked 14,000 steps according to the pedometer. At the end I had seen or heard 44 species including 6 FOS birds.
* = First of Season
Species seen or heard:
- Cerulean Warbler *
- Blackpoll Warbler *
- Veery *
- Swainson’s Thrush *
- Mourning Warbler *
- American Redstart *
- Canada Goose
- Red-headed Woodpecker
- Gray Catbird
- Blue Jay
- Northern Mockingbird
- Brown Thrasher
- Eastern Wood-Pewee
- Mourning Dove
- White-eyed Vireo
- American Crow
- Fish Crow
- American Robin
- European Starling
- Carolina Wren
- Carolina Chickadee
- Tufted Titmouse
- Red-bellied Woodpecker
- Killdeer
- Red-eyed Vireo
- Black-and-white Warbler
- Baltimore Oriole
- Northern Flicker
- White-throated Sparrow
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak
- Indigo Bunting
- Yellow-rumped Warbler
- Wood Thrush
- Savannah Sparrow
- Warbling Vireo
- Tennessee Warbler
- Summer Tanager
- Black-throated Green Warbler
- Eastern Meadowlark
- Red-shouldered Hawk
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow
- Green Heron
- Nashville Warbler
- Louisiana Waterthrush
