Tim Schreckengost, Nate Fronk, Mark Mizak, Josh Lefever, Zach Kick, and I birded the Scotia Barrens from 6:00am until 9:25am this morning.
Since we went expecting the "movement of relatively large & perhaps historic proportions" that was predicted by many birding experts last night, we were quite disappointed. However, we did manage to find 15 species of warbler; once again dominated by Cape May Warbler (12 at least this morning, in fact we had 5 in one scrub oak at one time). There was only one flock of warblers encountered, right across the road from the Research Building. The flock was very diverse. Other than that, there was basically zero activity along Scotia Rd, I haven't seen it so dead yet this fall. Perhaps the effects of this cold front will be seen around State College in the next few days, once the winds are on our side. One flyover Common Nighthawk and one Wood Thrush were nice to see though. Below is a list of the species seen today:
Number of species: 39
Turkey Vulture 4
Common Nighthawk 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2
Downy Woodpecker 1
Hairy Woodpecker 3
Least Flycatcher 1
Eastern Phoebe 1
Red-eyed Vireo 2
Blue Jay 10
American Crow 6
Black-capped Chickadee 12
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
Wood Thrush 1
American Robin 150
Gray Catbird 8
European Starling 14
Cedar Waxwing 200
Blue-winged Warbler 1
Tennessee Warbler 1
Nashville Warbler 1
Chestnut-sided Warbler 3
Magnolia Warbler 1
Cape May Warbler 12
Black-throated Blue Warbler 1
Black-throated Green Warbler 2
Blackburnian Warbler 2
Pine Warbler 2
Bay-breasted Warbler 1
Black-and-white Warbler 1
American Redstart 1
Worm-eating Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 3
Eastern Towhee 2
Field Sparrow 1
Scarlet Tanager 1
Northern Cardinal 1
Red-winged Blackbird 50
Baltimore Oriole 4
American Goldfinch 3
Mark Mizak and I went to Colyer Lake from 3:00pm till 4:10pm, below are the highlights of what we saw:
Cooper's Hawk 1 juvenile
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Killdeer 7
Spotted Sandpiper 4
Least Sandpiper 10
Pectoral Sandpiper 2
No photos from today because my camera's auto focus is apparently broken.
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