Walking Big-day results

Prompted by a post on this list which encouraged "Green Birding", John Boback and I did a Walking Big-day yesterday in the Allegheny Mountains area of north-central West Virginia.   Despite crappy weather all morning (we contended with intermittent rain, wind and cool temperatures) we managed to tally 88 species.  We started at 5:45 am and stopped at 4:30 pm, when we were both ready to keel over.  We estimated that we walked app. 7 miles.
Highlights were;
Black-bellied Plover (very rare for here and a county life-bird for me)
Lesser Scaup (straggler here now)
5 swallow species (Bank is difficult to find here)
7 Black-billed Cuckoos (most Black-billed Cuckoos I've encounterd in one day)
Total list is below.
Gary Felton
Kingwood, WV
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Wood Duck  
Mallard  
Lesser Scaup  
Wild Turkey  
Green Heron
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Cooper’s Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Black-bellied Plover
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Mourning Dove
Black-billed Cuckoo
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
White-eyed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Bank Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Blue-winged Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Louisiana Waterthrush
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat
Scarlet Tanager
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Bobolink
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Baltimore Oriole
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
 
 
 



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