8.26.14 - Cape Cod Museum of Natural History - Tuesday Tweets

John Wing Trail - Brewster, MA

 

Our enthusiastic group headed out on another sunny Tuesday morning... I had to share the photo of the tree with the bird-like silhouette below.  This branch formation has fooled me before...until I grab the binoculars!  It was rather quiet in the thickets surrounding the museum itself, but once we headed toward the marsh... we were in business.  It's rather evil I feel, how very pretty poison ivy begins to look at this time of year.  Hard to imagine certain birds are able to consume parts of the plant (Carolina Wren)  The yellow colored warbler that I had my sights on for about 3 seconds before she flew off,(that I missed a photo of) I do believe was a Yellow Warbler female.  We also managed to sneak a peak at a Nashville Warbler.  It was a walk FILLED with Gray Catbirds at every turn!

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Our List:

Northern Cardinal

White-breasted Nuthatch

Northern Flicker

Gray Catbird

American Goldfinch

American Crow

Ring-billed Gull

Osprey

Yellow Warbler (female)

Coopers Hawk

European Starling

Nashville Warbler

Eastern Phoebe

Eastern Kingbird

 

The branch that looks like a bird silhouette

Poison Ivy with berries 

Eastern Phoebe

Gray Catbird 

Eastern Phoebe

Eastern Phoebe 

Nashville Warbler

Eastern Chipmunk

I couldn't resist sharing the photo that I got of this lil' lady chowing down when I was headed back to the museum.  I always feel like it's a bonus when we see mammals on a bird walk!

Next opportunity for Tuesday Tweets: 9.16.14 $2Members/$4Non-Members

Happy Birding!