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Recent reports from Falls Lake--Ellerbe Creek RR Grade

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

October 7

1Yellow-billed Cuckoo ✓
100Chimney Swift ✓
13Killdeer ✓
9Lesser Yellowlegs ✓
2Greater Yellowlegs ✓
2Least Sandpiper ✓
9Great Egret ✓
2Great Blue Heron ✓
1Red-headed Woodpecker ✓
2Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
1Downy Woodpecker ✓
2Pileated Woodpecker ✓
1Northern Flicker ✓
2Eastern Wood-Pewee ✓
1Eastern Phoebe ✓
1Blue Jay ✓
5American Crow ✓
1Fish Crow ✓
1Tufted Titmouse ✓
1White-breasted Nuthatch ✓
4Carolina Wren ✓
1Gray Catbird ✓
1Northern Mockingbird ✓
1Eastern Bluebird ✓
1American Goldfinch ✓
1Common Yellowthroat ✓
1Palm Warbler ✓
1Northern Cardinal ✓

October 5

1Mourning Dove ✓
1Wilson's Snipe ✓
3Turkey Vulture ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
2Bald Eagle ✓
2Red-shouldered Hawk ✓
1Barred Owl ✓
2Belted Kingfisher ✓
2American Kestrel ✓
2Carolina Chickadee ✓
2Brown-headed Nuthatch ✓
1Northern House Wren ✓
1Brown Thrasher ✓
3Swamp Sparrow ✓
3Bobolink ✓
1Cape May Warbler ✓
3Pine Warbler ✓
2Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
3Indigo Bunting ✓
3Mallard ✓
1Virginia Rail ✓
1Sora ✓
1Semipalmated Plover ✓
3Pectoral Sandpiper ✓
6Double-crested Cormorant ✓
20Black Vulture ✓
4Cooper's Hawk ✓
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ✓
1Acadian Flycatcher ✓
1White-eyed Vireo ✓
1Tree Swallow ✓
5Barn Swallow ✓
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓
1Brown Creeper ✓
1Marsh Wren ✓
1Wood Thrush ✓
2American Pipit ✓
3House Finch ✓
3Chipping Sparrow ✓
3Song Sparrow ✓
1Lincoln's Sparrow ✓
1Eastern Meadowlark ✓
2Red-winged Blackbird ✓
57Brown-headed Cowbird ✓
2Black-and-white Warbler ✓
1Connecticut Warbler ✓
2Northern Parula ✓
1Magnolia Warbler ✓
1Black-throated Green Warbler ✓
1Scarlet Tanager ✓
1Rose-breasted Grosbeak ✓

October 4

7Stilt Sandpiper ✓

October 1

1Hairy Woodpecker ✓
1Osprey ✓