Field Trip Report – June 2011
Broome Naturalists’ Club Field Trip report for Oakley Corners State Land
For our last field trip of the spring season we went to Oakley Corners State Land. As usual for June, the leaves were out in full and made visual identification very difficult. So we turned to Avian Auditory Identification and did quite well.
Here is what we found:
Cardinals, Chipping Sparrows, Mourning Doves, Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers, Robins, Yellow Rumped Warblers, Baltimore Orioles, Red Eyed Verios, Chickadees, Brown Creeper, Oven Birds, Red Winged Black Birds, Spotted Sandpiper, Grackles, Mallards, Belted Kingfisher, Red Breasted Nuthatch, Great Blue Herons, Blue Jays, Crows, House Wren, Purple Finch, Catbirds, Juncos, Pine Warblers, Black-throated Blue Warbler, Chestnut Sided Warbler, Indigo Bunting, Hermit Thrush, Veery and a Piliated Wood Pecker.
BUT, the bird of the day was the pesky mosquito! Up around the ponds they were not othersome. Then we went down the trail on the north side of the state land and were swarmed by them. You would bring up your binoculars and see four or five on your hands at once!
Join us in September when we make our annual trip to Franklin Mountain and Montezuma Wild Life Refuge.
Dan Dunn
Naturalists’ Club of Broome County, Field Trip Chairperson
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