Hey all- Don't worry about Bay-breasteds yet... they arrived here in southern Wisconsin in big numbers yesterday and today. I think we had 10-15 in a few hours of birding this morning.
Jesse Ellis Madison, WI On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 2:09 AM, Matt Dufort <[email protected]> wrote: > Scott et al., > > I've also noticed way more Cape May Warblers than usual this year (seems > like I'm seeing them everywhere in 1s and 2s). But I've yet to see or hear > a Bay-breasted. > > As for birds feeding on the ground, I've been seeing a similar thing near > my house. But rather than feeding on the ground, they've been foraging on > the roof of my neighbor's house, under a large elm tree. My max counts this > afternoon in about 20 minutes of watching (all on the neighbor's roof, most > of these at the same time): > 26(!) Tennessee Warblers > 2 Cape May > 1 Yellow > 2 Blackburnian > 2 Chestnut-sided > 2 Palm > 7 Blackpoll > 4 Nashville > 1 Black-and-white > 5 Yellow-rumped > 2 Orange-crowned > 1 Redstart > 4 Swainson's Thrushes > 1 Gray Catbird > 2 White-throated Sparrows > 3 Chipping Sparrow > > The sight of 40+ warblers of ~10 species all foraging together on the roof > of a house, is one of the most amazing experiences I've had in 15 years of > birding. In the past few days, my very suburban yard has also hosted > orioles, grosbeaks, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Lincoln's Sparrow, Golden-winged > and Magnolia Warblers, Ovenbird, and Gray-cheeked Thrush. I've found this > to be a fantastic spring for seeing migrant passerines. > > Get out and enjoy the migration! > > Matt Dufort > Minneapolis, MN > > > > On 5/13/11 9:29 PM, Scott Loss wrote: > >> I have also been seeing the street-feeding mixed flocks under elms, with >> one especially diverse flock located a block north from the north end of >> Lake Como. Yesterday, it included: Indigo Bunting, Chipping Sparrow, >> White-throated Sparrow, House Sparrow, Swainson's Thrush, Bay-breasted >> Warbler, Tennessee Warbler, Palm Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler. My friend >> Gopi Sundar reported the same at the U of M student housing in St. Paul, >> with additional species including Magnolia, Cape May, and Nashville >> Warblers, plus Robin, and Cowbird. >> >> On a related note, is it just me, or are Bay-breasted and Cape May >> Warblers particularly abundant this year? Typically, these are the hardest >> "common" warblers for me to find, as I see 1 or 2 a spring, and I sometimes >> completely miss one or the other over the course of an entire season. This >> year, I have seen 3+ of each every time out... and not just on the ground >> (which would suggest increased ease of detectability over previous years), >> but also feeding in tree canopies. Was there a spruce budworm outbreak in >> the boreal forest last year? >> >> Scott Loss >> St. Paul >> >> ---- >> Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net >> Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html >> >> > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > -- Jesse Ellis Post-doctoral Researcher Dept. of Zoology University of Wisconsin - Madison Madison, Dane Co, WI ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
