Interesting to see Tucker and Tom J. mention a lack of warblers on their counts. That was certainly not the case today at Saylorville where warblers were abundant. I spent about 4 hours midday around Saylorville and ended up with 18 species. A full day's effort would have pretty easily produced a mid-20s warbler count. I missed virtually all the possible local breeders (yellowthroat, Yellow-throated, Prothonotary, Louisiana Waterthrush, etc.) and other normally expected species like Black-and-white and Northern Waterthrush. Some totals:
Golden-winged Warbler - 3 Tennessee Warbler - 103, an extremely conservative count Orange-crowned Warbler - 1 Nashville Warbler - 6 Northern Parula - 1 Yellow Warbler - 47 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2 Cape May Warbler - 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 39 Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 Blackburnian Warbler - 3 Palm Warbler - 1 Blackpoll Warbler - 15 American Redstart - 8 Ovenbird - 1 Mourning Warbler - 3 Wilson's Warbler - 2 Canada Warbler - 2 Other notable birds: Lark Sparrow - 2 Scarlet Tanager - 3 including a female building a nest at Oak Grove Summer Tanager - 1 molting male at Jester Aaron Brees Saylorville, IA http://www.flickr.com/photos/abrees/ --- Please contribute your sightings to our list; it is only as good as members make it! --- Birding channel recommendation for FRS/GMRS radio use: Primary selection; channel 5/0 , alternate selection; channel 6/0 --- This mailing list is sponsored by the Iowa Ornithologists' Union. Membership available on-line at http://www.iowabirds.org/iou/membership.asp. ----- You are currently subscribed to ia-bird as: [email protected]
