OLLI Class summary from 4-24-19 Field Trip to Prime Hook NWR

Great attendance, a fun and very attentive class, and many excellent birds. Below is a list of the birds we encountered, and if we only heard it, then followed by an "h". The list is in taxonomical order, and more on that in the next class. We recorded a total of 41 species which is good for only 2 hrs in the field before peak migration.


American Black Duck 
Green-winged Teal 
Snowy Egret 
Turkey Vulture
Osprey 
Bald Eagle
Killdeer 
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs 
Dunlin
Laughing Gull
Mourning Dove
Red-bellied Woodpecker  h
Pileated Woodpecker
Great Crested Flycatcher  h
White-eyed Vireo  h
Blue Jay
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufter Titmouse
Red-breasted Nuthatch  h
Carolina Wren
House Wren  h
American Robin
Gray Catbird
European Starling
Yellow-throated Warbler  h
Pine Warbler  h
Prothonotary Warbler  h
Ovebbird
Common Yellowthroat
Eastern Towhee  h
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird  h
American Goldfinch