A very nice morning at Cranberry with the Willet as a highlight. It was seen from the platfrom at the south-east part of Cranberry Marsh. Other interesting shore-birds were a Pectoral Sandpiper and 2 Wilson's Snipe at the same location and a Solitary Sandpiper and 5 Short-billed Dowitchers along Lynde Creek.
Other notable birds were Black-billed Cuckoo, Great Egret, Great Crested Flycatcher, Northern Shoveler, Northern Pintail, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, both Nuthatches and a female Orchard Oriole.
Full species list below.
Walking down to the eastern part of Cranberry Marsh is necessary to see the shorebirds as none were seen from the platforms along Hall's Road.
/Thomas
50 Canada Goose
2 Trumpeter Swan
10 Wood Duck
100 Mallard
5 Northern Shoveler
3 Northern Pintail
10 Green-winged Teal
1 Hooded Merganser
1 Red-breasted Merganser
200 Double-crested Cormorant
45 Great Blue Heron
1 Great Egret
5 Black-crowned Night-Heron
2 Osprey
1 Northern Harrier
1 American Coot
10 Killdeer
50 Lesser Yellowlegs
1 Solitary Sandpiper
1 Willet
5 Spotted Sandpiper
5 Semipalmated Sandpiper
30 Least Sandpiper
1 Pectoral Sandpiper
5 Short-billed Dowitcher
2 Wilson's Snipe
100 Ring-billed Gull
5 Herring Gull
10 Caspian Tern
10 Rock Pigeon
5 Mourning Dove
1 Black-billed Cuckoo
5 Chimney Swift
1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1 Belted Kingfisher
1 Downy Woodpecker
1 Northern Flicker
2 Eastern Wood-Pewee
1 Least Flycatcher
1 Great Crested Flycatcher
15 Eastern Kingbird
1 Red-eyed Vireo
1 Blue Jay
2 American Crow
2 Tree Swallow
10 Bank Swallow
30 Barn Swallow
15 Black-capped Chickadee
2 Red-breasted Nuthatch
1 White-breasted Nuthatch
10 American Robin
5 Gray Catbird
1 Brown Thrasher
5 European Starling
4 Cedar Waxwing
1 Chestnut-sided Warbler
1 Magnolia Warbler
3 Black-and-white Warbler
4 American Redstart
20 Song Sparrow
1 Swamp Sparrow
2 Northern Cardinal
3 Rose-breasted Grosbeak
10 Bobolink
500 Red-winged Blackbird
5 Common Grackle
1 Brown-headed Cowbird
1 Orchard Oriole
20 American Goldfinch
