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Recent reports from Jordan Lake SRA--Ebenezer Point

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

October 11

1Mourning Dove ✓
1Osprey ✓
1Bald Eagle ✓
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ✓
1Red-headed Woodpecker ✓
1Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
2American Crow ✓
2Carolina Wren ✓
1American Pipit ✓
3Chipping Sparrow ✓
3Black-and-white Warbler ✓
1Tennessee Warbler ✓
3American Redstart ✓
3Cape May Warbler ✓
6Northern Parula ✓
1Bay-breasted Warbler ✓
1Blackburnian Warbler ✓
1Black-throated Blue Warbler ✓
6Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
2Northern Cardinal ✓
4Ring-billed Gull ✓
10Double-crested Cormorant ✓
1Great Egret ✓
4Great Blue Heron ✓
1Turkey Vulture ✓
1Downy Woodpecker ✓
1Pileated Woodpecker ✓
1Northern Flicker ✓
1Eastern Wood-Pewee ✓
1Eastern Phoebe ✓
1Blue Jay ✓
2Carolina Chickadee ✓
4Tufted Titmouse ✓
1Barn Swallow ✓
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ✓
5Eastern Bluebird ✓
2Blackpoll Warbler ✓
2Palm Warbler ✓
10Pine Warbler ✓
6Canada Goose ✓
3Laughing Gull ✓
2Tree Swallow ✓
2Brown-headed Nuthatch ✓
1Northern Mockingbird ✓
9Brown-headed Cowbird ✓
7Mallard ✓
1Spotted Sandpiper ✓
1Greater Yellowlegs ✓
1Hairy Woodpecker ✓
1Peregrine Falcon ✓
1Fish Crow ✓

October 10

1Killdeer ✓
1Red-shouldered Hawk ✓
1Sharp-shinned Hawk ✓
1White-breasted Nuthatch ✓
1Black-throated Green Warbler ✓
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird ✓
1Cooper's Hawk ✓
1Common Yellowthroat ✓
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo ✓
5House Finch ✓

October 9

1Gray-cheeked Thrush ✓
1Swainson's Thrush ✓
1American Robin ✓
1Yellow-throated Warbler ✓
1Belted Kingfisher ✓
1Winter Wren ✓
2Caspian Tern ✓
2Golden-crowned Kinglet ✓
2Gray Catbird ✓

October 8

10Chimney Swift ✓
1Magnolia Warbler ✓
1White-eyed Vireo ✓

October 7

1Brown Thrasher ✓
1American Goldfinch ✓

October 6

1Black-bellied Plover ✓
1Chestnut-sided Warbler ✓

October 5

4Black Vulture ✓