The birds seen or heard by the Ace birder team and 17 participants were; double-creasted cormorant, great blue heron, turkey vulture, Canada goose, wood duck, mallard, sharp-shinned hawk, Cooper's hawk, red-tailed hawk, killdeer, ring-billed gull, rock pigeon, mourning dove, chimney swift, belted kingfisher, red-bellied woodpecker, downey woodpecker, northern flicker, eastern phoebe, blue jay, American crow, tree swallow, Carolina chickadee, tufted titmouse, red-breasted nuthatch, white-breasted nuthatch, Carolina wren, golden-crowned kinglet, eastern bluebird, American robin, gray catbird, European starling, cedar waxwing, yellow-rumped warbler, palm warbler, eastern towhee, chipping sparrow, song sparrow, northern cardinal, red-winged blackbird, eastern meadowlark, rusty blackbird, common grackle, brown-headed cowbird, house finch, American goldfinch, and house sparrow.
GMAS' ACE Birder's   BIG SIT
         The GMAS ACE Birder Team met at Malabar farm, in  front    of the Bailey Centennial Barn, just across Pleasant Valley Road 
from the Malabar Farm Inn.   Operating out of a 17-foot circle for 
the entire 24-hour period, 47 species were logged as friends and
fans stopped by to cheer the team on.



                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
 photos:Cheryl Harner
 
                                                                             
Tim Leslie and Gary Cowell
October 9th, 2005
Are we having fun yet?
Maybe taking the 
whole "SIT" thing 
a little too seriously,  Tim Leslie, Gary 
Cowell and Su
Snyder (photo not
available) lead the
GMAS team to 47
sightings in spite of
cold, cloudy and
wet weather.
There are worse ways to  
  spend a Sunday afternoon...
  thinks Gary Cowell
.

Check out the results from Big Sits all across the country:
      
   
http://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/site/funbirds/bigsit/pastyears.aspx