Greenfield Lake Park Cape Fear Audubon 1-14-2012

This was the first time I used my New GE Camrea during a Audibon Trip.
This is a veiw of the lake through three young cypress trees 1-14-2011 

I attended an Audubon Society bird walk on Saturday January 14th 2012 at 8:30am. My friend Mac attended the tour with me. When we arrived there were four other people, the leader was a guy from the Northeast. Walk about a mile along the loop when he got a call from the president of the Cape Fear Audubon who was with a second group of people looking for the tour. We were told to meet at the parking lots near the bathrooms but there are two bathrooms at Greenfield Lake Park. We met at the parking lot near the playground and began our tour.  The rest of our group met at the bathrooms by the boat docks and walked in the opposite direction trying to find us. Mac ran back to meet the other group and tell them were we were. Mac than got in his car and drove to our position to direct us to the large bridge. The other half of our group met us there and we continued our tour. We saw 42 species of birds and stayed out there until 11:00am.

Weather- According to a handheld thermometer  

·         37 degrees F at the start of the walk

·         52 degrees F at the end of the walk

·         Average Temp 43.5 degrees F 

·         Humidity 43-45%

·         Clear skies 

·         Calm to light winds

 Reported Birds

Canada Goose

X Goose (mix breed between a Canada Goose or a Snow Goose)

Mallard

Wood Duck

Bufflehead

Ruddy Duck

Hooded Merganser

Pied Billed Grebe

Double Crested Cormorant

Annhinga

Osprey

Cooper's Hawk

Great Blue Heron

Great Egret

Ring Billed Gull

Mourning Dove

Red Bellied Woodpecker

Pileated Woodpecker

Northern Flicker 

Yellow Bellied Sapsucker

Blue Jay

American Crow

Tufted Titmouse 

Carolina Chickadee

Brown Creeper

Brown Headed Nuthatch

Ruby Crowned Kinglet

Golden Crowned Kinglet 

Cedar Waxwing

American Robin

Northern Mockingbird

Brown Thrasher

Pine Warbler

Yellow Rumped Warbler

Northern Cardinal

Swamp Sparrow

Song Sparrow

White Throated Sparrow

Eastern Towhee

Common Grackle

Red Winged Blackbird