Today seems to rival Wednesday as the best day of the season so far for
birding in Sapsucker Woods. The collective warbler tally is 17, plus
Ovenbird, which somehow I missed today but I assume must be present. As
expected, people's finds vary, as luck and coverage have a lot to do each
person's
I spent from 6:30 until 9:00 am in the Hawthorns this morning and ran
into at least 9 other birders! The morning began quietly, with an
occasional Tennessee Warbler song, a few yellows and yellowthroats. By
7 - 7:30 the pace picked up markedly. There seemed to be Tennessee
Warblers
This morning, I met up with Pete Marchetto, and together we slowly made one
round through the Hawthorn Orchard. Briefly ran into Kevin Ripka (good to
meet you!).With the winds and lack of sunlight early in the AM, the behavior
of birds was very different than the previous days.
The diversity
There are two birds I need to add to this morning's Hawthorn list. All
of the morning's birds were in the NE corner or along the northern
edge of the Orchard. I never got out south into the tangle.
NASHVILLE WARBLER 2
BALCK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER This guy was foraging in the flowering
Highlights include the Bay-breasted Warbler and some Yellow-rumpeds.
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Enjoy!
Evan B
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I just spent the past week or so in Point Pelee National Park in Ontario while
waiting for some paperwork to come through from Toronto. I couldn't have picked
a better spot to spend that time; though Pelee didn't experience one of it's
famous fallouts, the birds were very much there. It just
Hi all,
Ton and I were at the far end of Railroad Rd. at 8 pm on Thursday and heard an
AMERICAN BITTERN calling, saw 3 MOORHENS, 1 COOT, 1 PIED BILLED GREBE and
watched 25+ BLACK TERNS feeding and flying along the water's surface along with
hundreds of TREE and BARN SWALLOWS. It was quite
some soft zeeps alerted me to a stunning male BAY-BREASTED WARBLER and
MAGNOLIA WARBER feeding quietly side by side in my backyard spruces -- a female
BAY-BREAST was nearby. A YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER gave at least two rounds of
chu-weee calls from a neighbor's yard. A female-type INDIGO
I birded around home and then walked the off-the-rail-trail-trails below
Juniper Drive on South Hill this morning from about 5:30 to 9:00 AM. The
highlight was a YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO I spotted at about 7:30. About an hour
later on my way back I was about 200 meters from where I saw the
