Date:         Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:33:10 -0400
Reply-To:     Steve Parrish <geauxtigers@ALLTEL.NET>
Sender:       Georgia Birders Online <GABO-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Steve Parrish <geauxtigers@ALLTEL.NET>
Subject:      Milledgeville Greenway report 9/16/08
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The Greenway runs along the Oconee River south of the bridge east of town.  Birding for migrants was awful in the spring
but the park had just been finished with a lot of disruption to vegetation.  It is much better birding this fall.  This morning in 
2.5 hours of birding I found:

Black-billed Cuckoo
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Philadelphia Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
White-eyed Vireo
Magnolia Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 5
Blue-winged Warbler - 2
Northern Parula - 2
Black and Wihte Warbler - 2
Blackburnian Warbler - 2
Kentucky Warbler
American Redstart - 4
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Scarlet Tanager
Belted Kingfisher 
Great Blue Heron
Red-shouldered Hawk
Turkey Vulture
Mourning Dove
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Pileated Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Eastern Phoebe
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Tufted-titmouse
Carolina Chickadee
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
Eastern Bluebird
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher

I take the Black-billed Cuckoo and Philadelphia Vireo ID's very seriously as they are life birds for me.
The black-billed Cuckoo was a juvenile that was fairly uniformly dark on the inside of the tail.  I was worried that
the dark bill was just from the shading until a few minutes later when a yellow-billed cuckoo flew in nearby
with similar shading and the yellow bill was obvious as well as the much cleaner throat.  The Philadelphia
Vireo gave 3 great looks (the last an hour after the first sighting so it may be more than one bird).  It had
yellow in the center of the throat and a smaller bill than a Red-eyed as well as being smaller and more compact
than a Red-eyed.  After seeing a lot of Red-eyed Vireos this summer it was pretty obviously a different species.
A great morning along the Oconee!

Steve Parrish
Milledgeville
Baldwin County

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