Howard County Bird Club Young Birder Meet and Bird

Trip leaders: Gregg Petersen and Terri Berkheimer
Recorder: Gregg Petersen
Date of trip: June 15, 2024
Location: Mount Pleasant Number attending: 13
Details: Mostly sunny day. Start temperature 67, finish 71. Negligible wind. Limited walk in and around Skywatch with some distant spotting help from Lynn Gregg. (Click to enlarge photos.)
Photo by Gregg Petersen
Photo by Gregg Petersen
Photo by Gregg Petersen
Photo by Gregg Petersen

Mourning Dove 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Great Blue Heron 1
Black Vulture 1
Turkey Vulture 7
Osprey 1
Cooper’s Hawk 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 2
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
Eastern Kingbird 1
Blue Jay 2
American Crow 1
Fish Crow 9
Carolina Chickadee 1
Tufted Titmouse 3
Tree Swallow 3
Purple Martin 3
Barn Swallow 1

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1
House Wren 1
Carolina Wren 2
European Starling 15
Northern Mockingbird 1
Eastern Bluebird 4
American Robin 3
Cedar Waxwing 2
House Finch 3
American Goldfinch 1
Chipping Sparrow 2
Field Sparrow 2
Eastern Towhee 1
Yellow-breasted Chat 1
Brown-headed Cowbird 2
Common Grackle 2
Common Yellowthroat 2
Prairie Warbler 2
Scarlet Tanager 2
Northern Cardinal 2
Indigo Bunting 3

Eastern Kingbirds bombing Red-shouldered Hawk carrying snake (Eastern Ratsnake?) Photo by Colin Moynihan*

* Sponsored by Gregg Petersen

Carolina Wren (Photo by Colin Moynihan*)
Field Sparros (Photo by Colin Moynihan*)