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Recent reports from Waties Island - Causeway and Marsh

Only the most recent report per species is shown. Some reports may be pending verification.

October 10

4Clapper Rail ✓
14Laughing Gull ✓
1Ring-billed Gull ✓
1Caspian Tern ✓
2Little Blue Heron ✓
1Tricolored Heron ✓
6Great Egret ✓
1Great Blue Heron ✓
5Osprey ✓
2Belted Kingfisher ✓
1Merlin ✓
2Northern Mockingbird ✓
2Seaside Sparrow ✓
1Boat-tailed Grackle ✓
4Palm Warbler ✓
1Nelson's Sparrow ✓
10Blue-winged Teal ✓
1Sora ✓
1Black-bellied Plover ✓
2Semipalmated Plover ✓
1Forster's Tern ✓
1Wood Stork ✓
1White Ibis ✓
1Least Bittern ✓
7Snowy Egret ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
3Bald Eagle ✓
1Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
3Northern Flicker ✓
1Eastern Phoebe ✓
1American Crow ✓
1Carolina Chickadee ✓
2Marsh Wren ✓
3Red-winged Blackbird ✓
1Common Yellowthroat ✓
1Pectoral Sandpiper ✓
2Semipalmated Sandpiper ✓
2Royal Tern ✓
1Green Heron ✓
2Blue Jay ✓
1Brown-headed Nuthatch ✓
1Northern House Wren ✓
1Brown Thrasher ✓
1Saltmarsh Sparrow ✓
1Yellow-rumped Warbler
3Northern Cardinal ✓

October 6

1Yellow-billed Cuckoo ✓
1Short-billed Dowitcher ✓
2Greater Yellowlegs ✓
4Gray Catbird ✓
8Rock Pigeon ✓
2Double-crested Cormorant ✓
2Downy Woodpecker ✓
1Pileated Woodpecker ✓
1Peregrine Falcon ✓
5White-eyed Vireo ✓
3Tufted Titmouse ✓
6Tree Swallow ✓
8Carolina Wren ✓
1Eastern Bluebird ✓
1Common Grackle ✓
5Black-and-white Warbler ✓
3American Redstart ✓
2Northern Parula ✓
2Pine Warbler ✓
1Prairie Warbler ✓
1Black-throated Green Warbler ✓