Date: 5/12/26 9:47 am From: 'drawthislp' via NHBirds <nhbirds...> Subject: [NHBirds] RE: Pickering Ponds trails bird walk, Rochester, May 10, 2026
Thanks Dan (and Zeke and Becky also).Can my ebird account be added to this checklist?Laura Pagano <drawthislp...> See you again soon.Laura and Vic
-------- Original message --------From: Dan Hubbard <danielhubbard...> Date: 5/11/26 9:58 PM (GMT-05:00) To: <nhbirds...> Subject: Pickering Ponds trails bird walk, Rochester, May 10, 2026 Twenty-seven birders joined me for the traditional Mother's Day bird walk on Sunday. A birdy month of May at Pickering continued as 90 species were recorded. Highlights included 16 species of warbler (one parula was especially photogenic) and 2 very cooperative Virginia Rails. Thanks once again to Zeke Cornell for producing the eBird list below. Dan Hubbard, RochesterPickering Ponds, Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire, USMay 10, 2026 7:13 AM - 12:38 PMProtocol: Traveling2.076 mile(s)90 speciesCanada Goose 7Wood Duck 5 Mallard 10American Black Duck 2Bufflehead 4 Females. Very small ducks with a small white patch on the face. Smaller than Hooded Mergansers.Hooded Merganser 9Common Merganser 6Wild Turkey 3Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 2Mourning Dove 9Chimney Swift 30Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1Virginia Rail 2Killdeer 6Wilson's Snipe 1Spotted Sandpiper 2Solitary Sandpiper 1Least Sandpiper 1American Herring Gull 30Great Black-backed Gull 1Common Loon 1 FlyoverGreen Heron 2Great Blue Heron 1Turkey Vulture 4Osprey 1Bald Eagle 2Broad-winged Hawk 2Red-tailed Hawk 1Barred Owl 1Belted Kingfisher 1Red-bellied Woodpecker 3Downy Woodpecker 3Pileated Woodpecker 1Least Flycatcher 11Eastern Phoebe 2Great Crested Flycatcher 1Eastern Kingbird 10Yellow-throated Vireo 2Eastern Warbling Vireo 9Red-eyed Vireo 1Blue Jay 6American Crow 1Common Raven 2Black-capped Chickadee 10Tufted Titmouse 4Bank Swallow 2Tree Swallow 50Northern Rough-winged Swallow 5Barn Swallow 60Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3Red-breasted Nuthatch 2Brown Creeper 1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 6Northern House Wren 3Gray Catbird 18Eastern Bluebird 1Veery 2Wood Thrush 6American Robin 8Purple Finch 6American Goldfinch 7Chipping Sparrow 3White-throated Sparrow 1Savannah Sparrow 3Song Sparrow 10Swamp Sparrow 4Bobolink 1Orchard Oriole 3Baltimore Oriole 7Red-winged Blackbird 44Brown-headed Cowbird 7Common Grackle 10Ovenbird 10Northern Waterthrush 1Blue-winged Warbler 1Black-and-white Warbler 7Nashville Warbler 1Common Yellowthroat 12American Redstart 5Northern Parula 4Magnolia Warbler 3Northern Yellow Warbler 20Chestnut-sided Warbler 2Black-throated Blue Warbler 1Pine Warbler 5Yellow-rumped Warbler 16Prairie Warbler 1Black-throated Green Warbler 1Northern Cardinal 8Rose-breasted Grosbeak 9View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S336837767This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (https://ebird.org/home)
