Beaty Landing

This birding season May 2010 through April 2011 Blackbrook Audubon will be monitoring Lake Metro Parks Beaty Landing. We have monthly hikes on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of the month at 8:00 AM as well as the 3rd Wednesday at 7:00 PM. These hikes are free. Today was our first bird hike for the season on this cold and chilly day. Here are the results:
3 Canada Geese
7 Mallards
2 Great Blue Heron
7 Turkey Vultures
1 Solitary Sandpiper
1 Ring-billed Gull
2 Mourning Dove
1 Red-bellied Woodpecker
1 Downy Woodpecker
1 Hairy Woodpecker
2 Warbling Vireo
4 Blue Jay
5 American Crow
3 Northern Roughwinged Swallow
2 Bank Swallow
6 Cliff Swallow
1 Black-capped Chickadee
1 Tufted Titmouse
2 Carolina Wren
4 House Wren
3 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2 Eastern Bluebird
2 Wood Thrush
7 American Robin
5 Gray Catbird
2 Brown Thrasher
30 Yellow Warbler
1 Magnolia Warbler
3 Yellow-rumped Warbler
1 Scarlet Tanager
5 Song Sparrow
2 White-crowned Sparrow
15 Northern Cardinal
2 Rose-breasted Grosbeak
5 Red-winged Blackbird
2 Common Grackle
14 Brown-headed Cowbird
3 Baltimore Oriole
40 American Goldfinch

If you have the time, join us on one of the bird hikes. Beginners welcome.