St. Michael's Properties - 04/14/12

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Location: St. Michael's, Mercer, US-NJ
Date/Time: Mar 14, 2012 7:10 AM - 9:00 AM
Compiler: Sharyn Magee

March St. Michael's eBird report in 3 parts because of habitat change: walk along field edges from Princeton Avenue to Aunt Molly Road; oak-hickory savannah and cedar woods across Aunt Molly Road; and return along field edges to Princeton Avenue.

5977 Bluebird pair on nesting box.
5984 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker female.

Dogs were playing in the creek which may have accounted for the lack of the Great Blue Heron and Mallards which we usually find in the creek.  With the good weather several off leash dogs were encountered.

Sharyn

Canada Goose  310     Estimate.
Red-tailed Hawk  1
American Kestrel  1     Defended nest box from starling by chasing it away.
Rock Pigeon  1
Mourning Dove  3
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  1
Downy Woodpecker  2
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  2
Eastern Phoebe  2
Blue Jay  4
American Crow  4
Tufted Titmouse  2     Males countersinging.
Carolina Wren  2
Eastern Bluebird  5     Pair on nesting box.
American Robin  31
Northern Mockingbird  10     Sexed by behavior.  2 pairs of males antagonistic encounter;
                                         Pair together & tolerating each other assumed male-female pair.
European Starling  4
Field Sparrow  4
Song Sparrow  26
Swamp Sparrow  1
White-throated Sparrow  1
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)  1
Northern Cardinal  5
Red-winged Blackbird  10
Brown-headed Cowbird  12
American Goldfinch  2


Aunt Molly Woods St. Michael's, Mercer, US-NJ Mar 14, 2012 9:00 AM - 10:39 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.0 mile(s)
23 species (+1 other taxa)

Wild Turkey  1
Turkey Vulture  1
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Belted Kingfisher  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  2
Downy Woodpecker  5
Hairy Woodpecker  2
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1
Blue Jay  15
American Crow  2
Carolina/Black-capped Chickadee  5
Tufted Titmouse  4
White-breasted Nuthatch  2
Carolina Wren  1
American Robin  6
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  6
Eastern Towhee  3
Chipping Sparrow  1
Field Sparrow  1
Song Sparrow  2
White-throated Sparrow  8
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)  1
Northern Cardinal  7
Red-winged Blackbird  2


St. Michael's, Mercer, US-NJ
Mar 14, 2012 10:39 AM - 11:44 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.3 mile(s)
Comments:     Because of route overlap, only birds not seen earlier in the morning counted.
15 species (+1 other taxa)

Turkey Vulture  1
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Eastern Phoebe  2
Blue Jay  2
Carolina/Black-capped Chickadee  2
Eastern Bluebird  3
American Robin  6
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  10
Field Sparrow  4
Song Sparrow  6
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)  6
Northern Cardinal  1
Red-winged Blackbird  3
Brown-headed Cowbird  1