Slow day but once the wind stopped I got to add another lifer for me:
Mourning Warbler (beautiful and secretive - got long good looks - nice
bib)
This area is starting to pick up but only single birds for the most
part. Some warblers handing relatively low but the ones up in the
canopy are tough with any wind now that the leaves are out. There are
a boisterous lot of Baltimore Orioles near the boat dock making quite
a rucus and dazzling ariel displays for the last two days. Must be
pairing up - at least a dozen of them. Other warblers seen in ones or
twos only:
Yellow
Chestnut sided
Magnolia
Nashville
Tennessee
Yellow-Rumped
Redstart
Common Yellowthroat
Very active Pileated Woodpeckers
Ruby-Throated Hummingbird finally at my feeders and my recently
purchased Fuscia
Finally Hermit and Swainson's Thrushes
Cooper's Hawks
Blue Gray Gnatcatchers
Heaven. I'm in Heaven and the birds all know me by my name. (sung to
the familiar tune).
I am also realizing that the reason I seem to have so many birds in my
area is probably because I am looking some 16 hours a day outside my
window as I work. This variety is likely present everywhere if there
was someone there to see it.
Also - I have to learn that the warblers will come only after the
trees flower and attract the insects. The trees are almost all leaved
or budded at this point and most have flowered. So now the warblers
come.
Thomas Maiello
Angel Environmental Management, Inc.
Maple Grove, MN
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