SOFO/ELIAS walk

Yesterday morning was the now annual SOFO/ELIAS (ELI Audubon) walk around the edge of the meadow behind the SOFO (S Fork Natural History Museum). The morning started clear and overcast but there was warm sunshine later in the day. There was a good turnout from both organizations. The date was a bit earlier this year than in the past and, as a result, there were a lot of birds singing, hawking insects, etc. Here is my annotated list:

Wild Turkey (a small group at the far end of the meadow)
Double-crested Cormorant (overflight)
Herring Gull (overflight)
Red-tailed Hawk (overflight)
Mourning Dove (several seen, mainly around the pond in the middle of the field)
Chimney Swift (several seen flying overhead)
Red-bellied Woodpecker (heard)
Northern Flicker (heard)
Great Crested Flycatcher (heard)
Eastern Kingbird (one bird seen on the meadow)
Red-eyed Vireo (two or three heard in the woods along the edge of the meadow)
Blue Jay (several flying around)
American Crow (overflight)
Purple Martin (very active colony in gourds at the back of the SOFO building)
Tree Swallow (many birds using the Bluebird nesting boxes)
Barn Swallow (many birds feeding over the meadow; there is also a live cam of an occupied nest right under the eaves of the main entrance to the museum)
Black-capped Chickadee (a single bird feeding at the woodland edge)
Tufted Titmouse (heard in the woods)
House Wren (heard)
Eastern Bluebird (at least one pair still occupying one of the nesting boxes and not yet thrown out by the Tree Swallows
thrush (spp? Veery? Made a brief appearance at the far end of the meadow)
American Robin
Gray Catbird (many all along the woodland edge)
Northern Mockingbird (several males singing from high perches in back of SOFO and also at the top of isolated emergent trees in the meadow)
Cedar Waxwing (one or two perched near the head of the meadow; also small flock overhead)
Blue-winged Warbler (singing birds all along the meadow edge; at least one adult seen)
Common Yellowthroat (several singing birds around the edge)
American Redstart (one singing bird near the SOFO building)
Yellow Warbler (most common warbler; many on territory along the edge)
Eastern Towhee (heard in the Greenbelt woods to the north)
Chipping Sparrow (heard)
Song Sparrow (singing birds mainly near the SOFO building)
Northern Cardinal (singing birds around the meadow edge)
Indigo Bunting (this meadow must be the Indigo Capital of LI, if not the world; there were singing Buntings almost all the way around)
Red-winged Blackbird (very common in the meadow)
Common Grackle (a few near the SOFO building)
Brown-headed Cowbird (at least one seen and heard)
Orchard Oriole (at least 3 singing males, one near the SOFO building, another at the woodland edge and a third in the planted evergreen grove; both males & females seen)
Baltimore Oriole (At least as common as the Orchard at the woodland edge most of the way around)
American Goldfinch (a few seen and heard)

Unless I omitted somehing, that makes 40 species seen or heard

Eric Salzman