Just heard 3rd hand that there was a yellow breasted chat somewhere near
the intersection of the Esker Brook and South Spring Trails this
evening, observed by very experienced birders. I have no further
details on exactly where and it could be that this 3rd hand info on
location has gotten
I had a Mourning Warbler singing in my yard this AM. Both Black-billed and
Yellow-billed Cuckoos. And our perennial Barred Owls. I actually had a
face-to-face with one of them a couple days ago, down in the hemlock-shaded
ravine.
Elsewhere around my local haunts I had two grunting Virginia
In a very last-minute decision this morning, I managed to get out today for my
first springtime birding, after having been occupied with work-related
obligations these past few weeks.
I spent about 1h 45m at the very quiet Hawthorn Orchard on this warm and very
clear/sunny day, starting around
Robert Buckert and I currently have four Wilson's Phalaropes (three males
and one female) among many Least Sandpipers and Semipalmated Plovers and
lesser numbers of Dunlin, Solitary Sandpipers, Lesser Yellowlegs, and
Pectoral Sandpipers.
Happy birding,
Nick Kachala & Robert Buckert
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FOY in my yard this morning-
Magnolia Warbler, foraging in pear tree blossoms;
Then, later, as I was searching on high for the singing foy-yard Scarlet
Tanager,
a foy-yard Black-billed Cuckoo ‘coo-coo-ed’ from opposite end of yard!
It flew before I got on it; then I saw it zoom past again over
