The Mountwood Bird Club from Parkersburg WV, visited the Crown City WMA today.  The highlight was finding a family of the target bird, the Blue Grosbeak.  We had good looks at the male, female and young, thanks to a tip from an Ohio birding couple we met there.  We also had a prolonged look at a male Blue Grosbeak and Indigo Bunting perched in the open about 5 feet apart.  Other highlights were a Grasshopper Sparrow at a nest, the Henslow's Sparrows, Dickcissels and lots of Bobwhites singing.

Here is our list for the day:

Northern Bobwhite
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron
Turkey Vulture
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Kingbird
White-eyed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Tree Swallow
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
Cedar 'Waxwing
Yellow Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Yellow-breasted Chat
Eastern Towhee
Field Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Henslow's Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Dickcissel
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

Dick & Jeanette Esker
Wood County
West Virginia
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