Deane and Dobsonfly
On Saturday four of us traveled from Shawnee to the Deep Fork National Wildlife Refuge where we met our three guides. It was a beautiful, clear, morning, and there were lots of birds singing. As we walked on the boardwalk, Angela pointed out a cottonmouth and a Yellow-crowned Night-Heron. We walked down to the river and saw a juvenile Red-shouldered Hawk in the power-line cut. After that the birds had quieted down, but we drove to the Railroad Trail and walked to the river overlook, adding Red-eyed Vireo and Red-headed Woodpecker. Here’s the list of bird species we observed:
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Red-shouldered Hawk
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Acadian Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
White-eyed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
American Crow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow?
Barn Swallow
Tufted Titmouse
Carolina Chickadee
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Northern Mockingbird
Northern Parula
Black-and-white Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Northern Cardinal
Indigo Bunting
Rose Mallow