Tamarack Ranch Wildlife Area Fall Count

Instead of waiting a week for a bird trips to finish and getting reports, I will transcribe telephone reports of current bird trips. Amy Davenport

September 13, 2011

Today, six birders covered the northern sections of Tamarack Ranch Wildlife Area. They walked the 6.5 miles east of Logan County Road 55 and about 1.5 miles of the west side. Jerry Petrosky reported highlight results below.

Preliminary results from the fall count at Tamarack Ranch Wildlife Area, Logan
County this morning.

Winds 12 mph, gusts to 19 mph, overcast skies, temperature high 82.

Birder hours 48, six participants

Highlights
Blackburnian Warbler --East
Northern Cardinal --East
Yellow-billed Cuckoo --East
Dickcissel (Ehlmann) --East
Eastern Phoebe (2) --East
Eastern Screech-Owl --East
Red-bellied Woodpecker (3) --West
Red-bellied Woodpecker (2) --East
Cassin's Kingbird
Indigo Bunting
Savannah Sparrow (2)
Grasshopper Sparrow (7)
Dickcissel
Red-headed Woodpecker (5)
Orchard Oriole
MacGillivray's Warbler
Black-headed Grosbeak (2)
Townsend's Solitaire
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
Yellow Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler