Bird List from Baker Bridge Fields 18-05-06 (37 sp)
Thank you to Nancy Soulette and Nancy Hammond for leading this walk. Nancy S. has written some of the bird sounds below, particularly the ones we talked about a lot, first hearing them then trying to find them, so these sounds are in parentheses. Where a bird was only heard, its name is followed by (h). Possibly one or two of these were only heard by a leader.
Canada Goose
Killdeer
Gull sp. (unidentifiable flyover)
Mourning Dove
Red-Bellied Woodpecker (h across 126)
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Warbling Vireo [blurry, slurring, meandering, thin song)
Blue Jay
American Crow
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
House Wren (h)
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
European Starling
Ovenbird (h) [“teacher teacher teacher, emphasis on second syllable]
Blue-winged Warbler (h)* [Bzzz buzz –or Bee Bzzz–second syllable lower]
Common Yellowthroat (h) [wichity witchity witchity]
Yellow Warbler [sweet sweet I am so sweet]
Eastern Towhee [drink your teeeeee – last syllable highest; call is a “chewink”]
Chipping Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Scarlet Tanager [hoarse robin-like song, as if robin has sore throat; call is “chip-burr”]
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak [brisk, cheerful bouncy whistle, similar to robin; call is a “chink”]
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird [male does high-pitched squeak; female chatters]
Baltimore Oriole [rich whistle, often just two notes at a time; angry chatter]
House Finch (h)
American Goldfinch (flyover call “potato chip potato chip etc”
House Sparrow (h)