May 1 - Inwood Hill Park

Beautiful morning with bright blue skies. Inwood Hill Park, however, remains relatively quiet, birdwise. When I headed into the park after 8:00 am, I ran into Danny Karlson also headed into the park. On the soccer fields there were about a dozen Chipping Sparrows and three Savannah Sparrows. The park itself and the ridge were relatively quiet, though we did manage to find five warblers. Individual Black-and-white Warblers were scattered throughout the park and we found two Ovenbirds in the Clove. On the way back out a calling Baltimore Oriole was the first of the year for me. My total list of 38 species is below.

[ADDITION: I didn't get a chance when I first posted yesterday to add the following picture of a skunk seen up on the ridge. I don't know if this is the same animal I came across a few weeks ago. It was in a very different part of the park.]

Skunk - 05/01/2018 - Inwood Hill Park

Canada Goose
Mallard
Double-crested Cormorant (6, on the Columbia boat dock)
Great Egret (1)
Red-tailed Hawk (1)
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Blue-headed Vireo (1)
Blue Jay
Northern Rough-winged Swallow (2)
Carolina Wren
Veery (1)
Hermit Thrush (4)
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Ovenbird (2)
Black-and-white Warbler (6)
Palm Warbler (2)
Pine Warbler (1, heard)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (1, heard)
Eastern Towhee (2)
Chipping Sparrow (12, soccer fields)
Savannah Sparrow (3, soccer fields)
Song Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird (1, soccer fields)
Baltimore Oriole (1, heard lower end of the Clove)
House Finch
House Sparrow