Date: 8/16/12 8:27 am
From: Gail B. Mackiernan %<3Ckatahdinss...>%3E <katahdinss...>
Subject: [MDBirding] Wilson's Warbler, Least FC @ Wheaton Regional Park today



Hi all,

First real flight of the autumn (I did say it would have to get better!) yielded 6 species of warbler and a good flycatcher at Wheaton Regional Park & Brookside Gardens. Certainly an incursion of flycatchers since yesterday, including a lovely HY LEAST FLYCATCHER near the Shorefield parking area, as well as a (probable) fall adult male BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER in the same tree! We ran into an active flock along the mini-train tracks which held a number of other warblers although diversity was on the low side. Lots of Wood-pewees, and Catbirds seemed to be everywhere as well. A park neighbor with a hummingbird feeder told us he sat out this morning for an hour with his coffee watching his feeder and had about 50 HB visits in that time period. We also checked Brookside Gardens for a short while, although by then it was getting late -- however maybe our best bird was there -- a snazzy adult male WILSON'S WARBLER foraging low in some bushes, sporting his black cap.

Full eBird list below

Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper
Colesville, MD

Wheaton Regional Park and Brookside Gardens, Montgomery, US-MD
Aug 16, 2012 7:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Protocol: Traveling
3.0 mile(s)
Comments: first real migration day; obvious incursion of flycatchers and warblers since yesterday, though numbers and diversity still low.
47 species (+2 other taxa)

Great Blue Heron 1
Green Heron 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 2
Mourning Dove 8
Chimney Swift 7
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 5
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 3
Downy Woodpecker 4
Northern Flicker 5
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 10
Acadian Flycatcher 2 1 worn adult, 1 fresh HY - yellowish below but white throat, slightly yellow eye-ring, large bill, long wing projection, "rangy" looking
Least Flycatcher 1 HY bird from buffy wingbars; small & compact, obvious large eye-ring, short primary projection; called "whit" a few times
Empidonax sp. 2 probably Acadian but not seen well enough
Eastern Phoebe 1
Red-eyed Vireo 8 a number still singing
Blue Jay 2
American Crow 3
Fish Crow 1
crow sp. 4
Carolina Chickadee 4
Tufted Titmouse 10
White-breasted Nuthatch 3
House Wren 2
Carolina Wren 4
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 6
Wood Thrush 1
American Robin 12 numbers down quite a bit from yesterday
Gray Catbird 20 best estimate; seemed to be everywhere
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 3
Common Yellowthroat 1
American Redstart 5
Northern Parula 4
Blackburnian Warbler 1 prob. fall adult male with very warm (but not glowing) yellow-orange throat
Chestnut-sided Warbler 5
Wilson's Warbler 1 adult male sporting his black cap
Eastern Towhee 8
Chipping Sparrow 6 including pure white individual seen yesterday; closer examination showed dark (not pink) eyes so not true albino
Song Sparrow 2
Scarlet Tanager 1
Northern Cardinal 10
Common Grackle X
Brown-headed Cowbird 1 being fed by catbird
Baltimore Oriole 2
House Finch 3
American Goldfinch 15 including pair feeding three large fledged chicks
House Sparrow 25

This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 ( http://ebird.org )

--