Spring Birding Report by Jeremy Phillips

By Jeremy Phillips, Rey Center Education Associate

Starting out at the Livermore Road Trailhead and walking the 2.8 miles out to Greeley ponds is a beautiful jaunt. This fairly wide, smooth trail provides plenty of opportunity to gaze in other directions than just forward. If you get a chance to hike this trail, make sure to keep your eyes to the trees. The trip on this day produced twenty species including an interesting observation at Greeley Ponds of a broad-winged hawk chasing a tree swallow. The entire species list is as follows:

Cape May Warbler

Black-throated blue warbler

Black-throated green warbler

Yellow-rumped warbler

Ovenbird

Eastern Pheobe

Belted kingfisher

Broad-winged hawk

Tree swallow

Red-breasted nuthatch

Chickadee

Brown creeper

Song sparrow

Chipping sparrow

Blue jay

Blue-headed vireo

Red-eyed vireo

Common crow

Mourning dove