Yellow Creek State Park

Sat, April 9, 2011, 8:00 am
Yellow Creek Park Office
Outing Leader: Roger and Margaret Higbee, , 724-354-3493

Description

This is a joint outing with the Three Rivers Birding Club. Meet at 8:00 at the park office. A trip to the Chinese buffet in Indiana will follow the outing.

Trip Report

3 Canada Geese
4 Wood Ducks
1 Am. Black Duck
3 Mallards
2 Blue-winged Teal
2 Green-winged Teal
5 Canvasbacks
1 Redhead
34 Ring-necked Ducks
16 Lesser Scaup
20 Buffleheads
4 Hooded Mergansers
44 Red-breasted Mergansers
22 Ruddy Ducks
1 Common Loon
2 Pied-billed Grebes
5 Horned Grebes
15 Double-crested Cormorants
2 Great Blue Heron
1 Turkey Vulture
2 Ospreys
3 Bald Eaglesï¿½all adults
2 Cooperï¿½s Hawks
150 Am. Coots
3 Bonaparteï¿½s Gulls
1 Ring-billed Gull
1 Forsterï¿½s Tern
2 Belted Kingfishers
1 Red-bellied Woodpecker
3 Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers
1 N. Flicker
4 E. Phoebes
2 Blue Jays
6 Am. Crows
200 Tree Swallows
2 Barn Swallows
3 Black-capped Chickadees
2 Tufted Titmice
1 Brown Creeper
3 Golden-crowned Kinglets
3 E. Bluebirds
12 Am. Robins
2 Brown Thrashers
6 Song Sparrows
2 Swamp Sparrows
3 N. Cardinals
5 Red-winged Blackbirds
1 E. Meadowlark
10 Common Grackles

Observers: Tom Byrnes, Lee Carnahan, Randi & Sarah Gerrish, Tom Glover, Steve Gosser, Roger & Margaret Higbee, Jim & Lynn Jeffries, Tony & Judy Schryer and 2 IUP biology labs.