I stopped by my “home course” here in Goshen after work today like I often do. It was a gray cool afternoon with a moderate amount of bird activity. Turkey Vultures must be moving through pretty good right now, I’ve been seeing many on my daily commute and I had 11 at the sanctuary today. I also checked Hawkcount.org and saw that they had 555 Turkey Vultures go through the Derby Hill Hawk watch yesterday (I might make it out to Derby Hill this coming weekend, so I wanted to see what birds were passing through). Duck numbers and variety were down a little bit from last week. In all, I stopped by for just about an hour and I had 23 species:
Canada Goose 40
Mute Swan 2
American Black Duck 2
Mallard 2
Green-winged Teal 35
Ring-necked Duck 11
Common Merganser 10
Great Blue Heron 4
Turkey Vulture 11
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Killdeer 2
Herring Gull 5
Mourning Dove 2
Downy Woodpecker 1
Blue Jay 5
American Crow 8
Black-capped Chickadee 1
Tufted Titmouse 1
Eastern Bluebird 1
Northern Mockingbird 1
Amer. Tree Sparrow 7
Song Sparrow 5
Red-winged Blackbird