Learn more about birds by volunteering to check on the bluebird boxes a few times a year. There are eight boxes. Training available. And it allows you to get outdoors!
Contact the township if interested, 574-272-2371 or HarrisTrusteeLindsay@gmail.com
It took until June, but a bluebird was spotted at Harris Township Park. It is nesting in a bluebird box that was installed earlier this year.
Thanks again to the Audubon Society, and specifically Laura Fuderer who took these pictures on June 19th. Interested in seeing wildlife up close? Volunteer.
Laura Fuderer, Conservation Chair of the South Bend – Elkhart Audubon Society, has been keeping track of the birds frequenting Harris Township Park.
Here is the list of birds spotted at Harris Township Park:
- Canada Goose
- Wood Duck (a pair)
- Mallard
- Turkey
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Killdeer (confirmed nesting)
- Gull species (Ring-billed?)
- Mourning Dove
- Northern Flicker
- Eastern Kingbird
- Blue Jay
- American Crow
- American Robin
- European Starling
- Chipping Sparrow
- Song Sparrow
- Northern Cardinal
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Common Grackle
- House Finch
- Cedar Waxwing
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Rose-Breasted Grosbeak
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Eastern Towhee
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Bluebird (breeding)
- House Sparrow
- Baltimore Oriole (breeding)
- Gray Catbird
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Green Heron
- Horned Larks
- Barn Swallows
This list will be updated ongoing! (last update from 7/26/2015 visit)
