Breeding Bird Atlas New Salem

Evening Grosbeak

I made an early morning trip into my atlas blocks to check on activity. The pace of migration continues to pick up with many new arrivals since my last trip in. The variety and overall numbers continue to increase (compare today's list with one last week). Although there were, as always, many highlights the ones that stick out include finding a Cerulean warbler back in his usual spot where he has breed for the last few years, an begging juvenile Coopers Hawk and a Merlin that was harassing a crow.


Wood Duck 6 pairs
Mallard 2 pair
Hooded Merganser 5 two males
Ruffed Grouse 9 drumming
Wild Turkey 15
Double-crested Cormorant 6 moving north
Great Blue Heron 1
Turkey Vulture 1
Bald Eagle 1 adult
Cooper's Hawk 3 one begging juvenile
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Merlin 1 well south, seen harassing a crow
Mourning Dove 18
Barred Owl 3
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 20
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 5
Pileated Woodpecker 3
Least Flycatcher 23
Eastern Phoebe 5
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
Eastern Kingbird 5
Blue-headed Vireo 7 carrying nest material
Warbling Vireo 1
Red-eyed Vireo 25
Blue Jay 26
American Crow 4
Tree Swallow 16
Black-capped Chickadee 28
Tufted Titmouse 7
Red-breasted Nuthatch 9
Brown Creeper 5
House Wren 2
Winter Wren 2
Golden-crowned Kinglet 8
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1
Veery 13
Hermit Thrush 4
Wood Thrush 17
American Robin 41
Gray Catbird 29
Blue-winged Warbler 1
Nashville Warbler 3
Northern Parula 4
Yellow Warbler 23 carrying nest material
Chestnut-sided Warbler 44
Magnolia Warbler 8
Black-throated Blue Warbler 24
Yellow-rumped Warbler 8
Black-throated Green Warbler 35
Blackburnian Warbler 9
Pine Warbler 17 making nest
Prairie Warbler 1
Cerulean Warbler 1 in same area they have bred for last few years
Black-and-white Warbler 18
American Redstart 43
Ovenbird 97
Northern Waterthrush 1
Common Yellowthroat 89
Scarlet Tanager 14
Eastern Towhee 70
Chipping Sparrow 45 making nest
Song Sparrow 10
Swamp Sparrow 1
White-throated Sparrow 6
Dark-eyed Junco 1
Northern Cardinal 1
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 16
Red-winged Blackbird 17
Common Grackle 13
Brown-headed Cowbird 14
Baltimore Oriole 17 making nest
Purple Finch 2 pair
American Goldfinch 12
Evening Grosbeak 4 two pairs