I found an unexpectedly rich variety of bird species, including many
highlights and a few surprises, in Sapsucker Woods on Sunday morning.
* At the start of my walk, a strange loose flock of birds around the
overgrown pool right next to the service driveway and the Lab building.
This group included two BLUE-HEADED VIREOS, a ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK, a
FIELD SPARROW, an EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE, and a HOUSE WREN, all preferring the
cattails and low shrubs instead of the trees.
* My first SCARLET TANAGER sighting in the past couple of weeks (and, I
expect, my last for several months), at the bend in the Wilson Trail North.
BLACKPOLL WARBLER, MAGNOLIA WARBLER, and BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER were
here too.
* Two SWAINSON'S THRUSHES and two WOOD THRUSHES all together in a fruiting
shrub by the Podell Boardwalk.
* COMMON RAVEN calling several times from the woods near the road.
* YELLOW-THROATED VIREO heard singing a single phrase a couple of times
along the East Trail near 91 Sapsucker Woods Road. I think I've never found
Yellow-throated Vireo so late in the season before. I tried to think what
else it could be, but the song seemed really quite typical.
* A big mixed flock of songbirds, including BAY-BREASTED, Blackpoll,
Magnolia, Black-throated Green, BLACK-AND-WHITE, and NASHVILLE warblers,
amid very many chickadees and titmice. Again I got lucky with very good
views of both Bay-breasted and Blackpoll within one minute and a few meters
of each other.
I also visited the Freese Road gardens. I found only two sparrow species
(Song and Swamp), plus some Indigo Buntings. In the trees above the ravine,
I found a little songbird flock that included Black-throated Green Warbler,
Nashville Warbler, Blue-headed Vireo, and Red-eyed Vireo.
Mark Chao
Location: Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
Observation date: 9/19/10
Number of species: 45
Mallard 6
Great Blue Heron 1
Mourning Dove 16
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 3
Downy Woodpecker 2
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 3
Eastern Phoebe 2
Yellow-throated Vireo 1
Blue-headed Vireo 2
Red-eyed Vireo 2
Blue Jay 21
American Crow 8
Common Raven 1
Black-capped Chickadee 14
Tufted Titmouse 6
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
House Wren 2
Veery 1
Swainson's Thrush 2
Wood Thrush 2
American Robin 7
Gray Catbird 4
European Starling 8
Cedar Waxwing 3
Nashville Warbler 1
Magnolia Warbler 2
Black-throated Blue Warbler 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler 4
Black-throated Green Warbler 3
Bay-breasted Warbler 1
Blackpoll Warbler 2
Black-and-white Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 4
Eastern Towhee 1
Field Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 3
White-throated Sparrow 1
Scarlet Tanager 1
Northern Cardinal 4
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 2
Common Grackle 1
House Finch 2
American Goldfinch 35
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
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