Hi all --
For some reason my post from yesterday never showed up so here it is again --
Gail
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Hi all,
Another active morning at WRP, fair number of birders out as well and we were all kept active until about 9:45, when everything shut down as it got hot. No "biggies" today, just a nice selection and very good numbers of some species. An obvious decline in flycatchers (just three Empids, one a nice Yellow-bellied, perhaps same molting individual as yesterday) and an big influx of Magnolia Warblers were the most obvious changes. Barry and I saw 10 species of warbler, and other birders added two others (Baybreasted, Nashville). Several of the birds, including a couple of Black and Whites, were singing. We saw our first migrant Indigo Buntings of the season (the breeding residents are long gone).
Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper
Silver Spring, MD
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Highlights:
Wood Duck 7
Green Heron 3
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Chimney Swift 3
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 5
Belted Kingfisher 1
Northern Flicker 10
Eastern Wood-Pewee 12
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 1 molting adult (maybe same as yesterday's); small bill, yellow eye ring, yellow underparts and throat, rather ragged appearance; flipped tail, silent.
Empidonax sp. 2
Yellow-throated Vireo 2 singing
Red-eyed Vireo 12
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 5
Veery 1
Cedar Waxwing 1 sitting in fruiting tree, oddly alone
Blue-winged Warbler 4 two very bright, two duller birds (probably adult females)
Black-and-white Warbler 6
Common Yellowthroat 5
American Redstart 15
Northern Parula 4
Magnolia Warbler 25
Blackburnian Warbler 1
Chestnut-sided Warbler 12
Black-throated Green Warbler 1
Canada Warbler 3
Chipping Sparrow 18
Scarlet Tanager 1
Indigo Bunting 6 FOS here
Baltimore Oriole 8
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