Tweet and See: April 2011

 

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Hi all.

We saw a good variety this month, mostly at a state park in our area.  The first week of April was our spring break, and since my husband, a public school teacher, had six days off from work, we spent a couple of them bird watching.  The weather was lovely, and most of the birds on our list were found during these outings.

The Georgia Youth Birding Competition was held in April, too.  My boys usually compete, but we decided not to participate this year because it was held on a Saturday/Sunday.  We held what we called the "HBC".  H for our last name Birding Celebration.  Although we did not bird watch for a straight 24 hours, we had fun trying to find as many birds as possible around our town.  It was very windy that weekend and difficult to hear anything other than the wind.  Not many birds were visible either.  The second day was very hot, and there was very little bird activity.

The end of the month brought an eye injury for me and tornadoes!  Therefore, I do not have much to report for the end of the month.

Here is our April list...

1. Osprey
2. Killdeer
3. Chipping Sparrow
4. Ring-billed Gull
5. Great Blue Heron
6. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
7. Bluebird
8. Double-crested Cormorant
9. Brown-headed Nuthatch
10. Tufted Titmouse
11. Eastern Meadowlark
12. Yellow Warbler
13. Belted Kingfisher
14. Carolina Chickadee
15. American Crow
16. Prairie Warbler
17. Blue Jay
18. Pileated Woodpecker
19. Golden-winged Warbler
20. Chimney Swift
21. Brown Thrasher
22. Mourning Dove
23. Northern Mockingbird
24. Fish Crow
25. Canada Goose
26. Barn Swallow
27. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
28. Red-winged Blackbird
29. Common Grackle
30. European Starling
31. Wood Thrush
32. Whip-poor-will
33. Eastern Towhee
34. Field Sparrow
35. Northern Parula
36. Hermit Thrush
37. Worm-eating Warbler
38. Bobwhite
39. Orange-crowned Warbler
40. Northern Cardinal
41. American Robin
42. House Sparrow
43. Eastern Kingbird
44. Black Vulture
45. House Finch
46. Bobolink
47. Carolina Wren
48. Mallard
49. Yellow-rumped Warbler
50. Cowbird
51. Summer Tanager
52. Rock Pigeon

Join the birding fun by listing what you see on your blog and linking in to Kingdom Arrows at the end of each month for Tweet and See.  It is a lot of fun to read the other posts and find out what birders from across the country (and maybe one day world!) are finding.  Thanks, Heather!

Happy Birding!
Dawn

Edit:  I must not be seeing as well as I thought.  This post was supposed to be published to Birders for Life.   Hello...bird brain!  Please forgive my faux pas and feel free to fly on over and check out some of my birding content.  :)