Today while participating in the Iowa City Bird Club's annual Johnson County Spring Migration Count, I enjoyed a great day of warbler watching and tallied 27 species. Combined totals from several sites around Johnson County, mostly near Lake Macbride:
Blue-winged Warbler 8 Golden-winged Warbler 11 Tennessee Warbler 54 Orange-crowned Warbler 4 Nashville Warbler 86 Northern Parula 4 Yellow Warbler 5 Chestnut-sided Warbler 14 Magnolia Warbler 6 Cape May Warbler 4 (Lake Macbride State Park North) Yellow-rumped Warbler 12 Black-throated Green Warbler 8 Blackburnian Warbler 13 Yellow-throated Warbler 1 (Lake Macbride State Park Osprey Trail) Palm Warbler 1 Bay-breasted Warbler 1 (Sugar Bottom) Blackpoll Warbler 1 Black-and-white Warbler 7 American Redstart 49 Prothonotary Warbler 1 (Hawkeye Wildlife Area) Ovenbird 2 Northern Waterthrush 3 Louisiana Waterthrush 1 (Sugar Bottom) Kentucky Warbler 1 (Ryerson's Woods) Mourning Warbler 3 (Macbride Nature-Recreation Area) Common Yellowthroat 4 Wilson's Warbler 1 A few other notables: Black-bellied Plover 1 (Sandy Beach) Hudsonian Godwit 1 (Twinview Heights) Acadian Flycatcher 1 (Macbride Nature-Recreation Area) White-eyed Vireo 1 (Lake Macbride State Park Osprey Trail) Philadelphia Vireo 1 FOY (Mormon Handcart Trail) And, after spending all day looking up, at the end of the day I happened to glance down and see a handful of morels at my feet. Life is good! Chris Edwards Solon, IA [email protected] --- This mailing list is sponsored by the Iowa Ornithologists' Union. Membership available on-line at http://www.iowabirds.org/iou/PayDues.aspx. ----- You are currently subscribed to ia-bird as: [email protected]. Unsubscribe at http://iowabirds.org/Reporting/Listserv.aspx.
