There didn’t seem to be as much bird song/activity at Denison this morning as yesterday, but it was still pretty good. I was delighted to hear a Kentucky Warbler singing and I believe a second bird was giving its Chip note at the same time. although I was very quiet and moved slowly, I could not spot the bird. At one point, he sang less than 3 feet away from me and I still didn’t see him although I saw some leaves move and then I heard him singing 15 feet away—quite the skulker! I’m hoping this means they are setting up a territory—will have to see.
I ended up with 16 warblers. The most amazing sighting was hearing a N Waterthrush singing, but it sounded like it was up in a tree! I looked up and there was a N Waterthrush on a branch about 20 feet off the ground singing its heart out—must be some kind of altitude record for this species! After it sang a couple times, it beelined lower to the ground & I heard it singing from the undergrowth near a flooded area.
I ran into a nice mixed flock that had three vireos, warbling, red eyed and yellow-throated as well as a handful of species of warblers. They were low enough that I could get on most of them.
I also saw and heard my FOY Least FCs doing their classic Che-bek call.
I didn’t add much at Lobdell. I went there mostly to see if the Willow FCs had arrived yet, but they have not. I was entertained by a chat, perched high and singing in the sun as another sang back.
(*= also at lobdell)
Warblers
Ovenbird *
B&W
Blackburnian *
Com YT *
N Parula *
BT Blue
KY
TN *
Nashville
La WT *
N WT
Yellow *
Chestnut-sided
Yellow-throated
Magnolia
Yellow-rumped
Chat
WE, BH, RE & YT* Vireos
Least FC FOY
Brown Thrasher *
Peggy Wang
Granville
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