Sanford Sewage Treatment Facility: October 16, 2011
Ten of us joined leader Andy Aldrich at the sewage ponds for a busy 3 hours of birding under mostly cloudy skies. It was breezy but warm as we ambled around the productive property.
Highlights included pipits in the scope, a large movement of robins, several Pectoral Sandpipers, a remarkable 31 coots, and a scaup challenge.
- Canada Goose 15
- Wood Duck 4
- American Black Duck 1
- Mallard 100
- Blue-winged Teal 4
- Northern Pintail 6
- Green-winged Teal 150
- Ring-necked Duck 120
- Greater Scaup 1
- Bufflehead 1
- Hooded Merganser 8
- Ruddy Duck 22
- Pied-billed Grebe 2
- Double-crested Cormorant 30
- Great Blue Heron 4
- Turkey Vulture 1
- Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
- American Coot 31
- Greater Yellowlegs 1
- Pectoral Sandpiper 5
- Ring-billed Gull 3
- Herring Gull 1
- Downy Woodpecker 1
- Northern Flicker 12
- Blue Jay 2
- American Crow 11
- Common Raven 4
- Black-capped Chickadee 1
- American Robin 75
- European Starling 1
- American Pipit 15
- Palm Warbler 1
- Yellow-rumped Warbler 30
- Savannah Sparrow 12
- Song Sparrow 12
- Swamp Sparrow 1
- Dark-eyed Junco 2
- American Goldfinch 2