The Wrack
The Wrack is the Wells Reserve blog, our collective logbook on the web.
The Wrack is the Wells Reserve blog, our collective logbook on the web.
It's a 20-year tradition: In each season of every year since 1989, birders from the York County Audubon Society have scoured the forests and fields, marshes and beach of the Wells Reserve, intent on counting all the birds they can see or hear in 3 hours. Teams spread out to cover four routes, never knowing what they'll encounter.
At yesterday's post-survey compilation, it was clear that the Muskie and Pilger trails were the hot spot. That's where most of the 127 warblers of 15 species were found.
Survey coordinator Joanne Stevens and data handler Nancy McReel have shared the full results from one of the birdiest quarterly surveys the Audubon team has done—75 species.…
Canada Goose 59
American Black Duck 3
Mallard 22
Common Eider 19
Surf Scoter 2
Black Scoter 2
Long-tailed Duck 2
Red-breasted Merganser 10
Wild Turkey 8
Common Loon 2
Double-crested Cormorant 49
Great Blue Heron 3
Turkey Vulture 1
Osprey 4
hawk sp. 1
Merlin 1
Greater Yellowlegs 4
Willet 41
Herring Gull 56
Great Black-backed Gull 2
Rock Pigeon 5
Mourning Dove 5
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 1
Eastern Phoebe 4
Eastern Kingbird 1
Blue-headed Vireo 1
Blue Jay 26
American Crow 34
Tree Swallow 37
Barn Swallow 11
Black-capped Chickadee 29
Tufted Titmouse 5
White-breasted Nuthatch 3
House Wren 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Eastern Bluebird 3
Veery 2
Hermit Thrush 1
American Robin 16
Gray Catbird 29
Northern Mockingbird 7
Brown Thrasher 1
European Starling 11
Blue-winged Warbler 1
Nashville Warbler 8
Northern Parula 14
Yellow Warbler 5
Chestnut-sided Warbler 10
Magnolia Warbler 4
Black-throated Blue Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 3
Black-throated Green Warbler 6
Pine Warbler 1
Black-and-white Warbler 15
American Redstart 4
Ovenbird 5
Common Yellowthroat 48
Wilson's Warbler 2
Eastern Towhee 25
Chipping Sparrow 1
Savannah Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 13
Swamp Sparrow 4
White-throated Sparrow 5
White-crowned Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 2
Bobolink 10
Red-winged Blackbird 49
Common Grackle 29
Brown-headed Cowbird 2
Baltimore Oriole 3
American Goldfinch 15
House Sparrow 18