The day had promise: an AMERICAN REDSTART sang from a flowering tree at the Farmers' Market, and an immature BALD EAGLE soared high overhead as I biked through.
I got a late start, so maybe that was why I didn't hear the Yellow-throated Warbler along Pier Rd between 10:08 and 10:14am, although it was that late that I heard and saw it on the 9th. Nor was it found around 3:30pm, but I had a very pleasant vigil with Tilden, Mark, and France. Tilden picked out a very obscure EASTERN PHOEBE and a female BALTIMORE ORIOLE, and I saw my second nest-building WARBLING VIREO of the day high in a Sycamore.
The first was at the swan pond, where a quiet WARBLING VIREO repeatedly came within a few feet of me to gather dead leaves of grass to weave into her nest and spider webs to cement them. The nest is in the Maple on the north side of the end peninsula near the end.
The Hawthorn Orchard was pretty quiet by noon when I arrived except for one very loud TENNESSEE WARBLER among a nearly silent but busy flock of MYRTLE WARBLERS which I encountered several times. It took me a long time to see the Tennessee, which reminded me how conspicuous Yellow-rumped Warblers' behavior makes them. Perhaps I overlooked many warblers, but the only other which I saw was a PALM WARBLER, although I did hear at least 4 songs of a NORTHERN PARULA in the ravine at the north end. My most rewarding bird surprise was a long close view of a nervous LINCOLN'S SPARROW in a damp ferny area in the middle of the Hawthorn Orchard.
--Dave Nutter
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