Learning Together at the Crab Dock

Fourteen SIB members gathered the morning of Saturday, August 6, for a two-hour birding session at the Crab Dock.   Many of the group are new to birding and were hoping to catch their first glimpse of a clapper rail.  The morning exceeded expectations when a mother clapper rail was seen herding her baby from the boat ramp back in to the marsh grasses.  Below is the complete list of the 22 bird species either seen or heard from Rob and Melanie Jerome’s deck or from the nearby marsh tower and the lagoon across from the fire station.

Clapper Rail – Charley Moore

Clapper Rail showing precocial down

Clapper Rail – Mother and chick – Charley Moore

Baby Clapper Rail marching up boat ramp before mother herded back to marsh – Dean Morr

Belted Kingfisher – Charlie Moore

Immature Little Blue – Charlie Moore

Green Heron – Charlie Moore

Glossy Ibis – Charlie Moore

Yellow-crowned Night Heron – Charlie Moore

Mississippi Kite in pine above boat ramp – Dean Morr

Mississippi Kite – Charlie Moore

Laughing Gull – Dean Morr

Immature White Ibis – Charlie Moore

1 Great Blue Heron
1 Great Egret
2 Snowy Egret
1 Little Blue Heron
2 Tricolored Heron
2 Green Heron
1 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
3 White Ibis
6 Glossy Ibis
1 Mississippi Kite
3 Clapper Rail
6 Laughing Gull
1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2 Belted Kingfisher
1 Downy Woodpecker
6 American Crow
3 Carolina Chickadee
4 Tufted Titmouse
2 Carolina Wren
3 Eastern Bluebird
2 Northern Mockingbird
2 Northern Cardinal

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