Melchor Tract Park ~ September 23, 2025

I drove over to the Melchor Tract Park to check out the sparrow situation. It's still a little early for their migration, so the fields were mostly empty, but I did manage to find 8 Song Sparrows, 6 Chipping Sparrows, 3 Swamp Sparrows, 2 Field Sparrows, and a Lincoln's Sparrow.

Swamp Sparrow

Lincoln's Sparrow

The area where the Lincoln's Sparrow was also held a an Eastern Wood-Pewee, a Red-eyed Vireo, 2 Common Yellowthroats, an American Redstart, and a Magnolia Warbler.

Eastern Wood-Pewee

Common Yellowthroat

Magnolia Warbler

'Fly-by' birds included a Double-crested Cormorant, 4 Black Vultures, 21 American Robins, a large group of around 150 Red-winged Blackbirds, and a Rock Pigeon.

Double-crested Cormorant

Rock Pigeon

Other birds seen among the 34 species included 11 Northern Flickers, a Northern House Wren, 3 Gray Catbirds, a Brown Thrasher, 8 Eastern Bluebirds, 18 Cedar Waxwings, 2 American Goldfinches, 2 Brown-headed Cowbirds, and a Baltimore Oriole.

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