| 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 |
| 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 |