Hi all,
The last day of August! It has been a great August so far at WRP -- however today was, as we expected with the hot weather, a lot slower than the last two days. The birds were around but we and the other birders present really had to work for them. A drop-off in Orioles and Pewees, Robins still passing by but fewer of them. We did luck into a couple of small flocks and scattered individuals. A Yellow-bellied Flycatcher was around, perhaps one of the ones from yesterday. Barry and I saw 8 species of warbler, most numerous Redstart and Magnolia (other birders added Blackburnian and Nashville, plus Indigo Bunting and a heard Y-B Cuckoo). We need another cold front!
Gail Mackiernan and Barry Cooper
Colesville, MD
link to checklist: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/email?subID=S11475931
Highlights:
Wood Duck 7
Green Heron 1
Cooper's Hawk 1
Chimney Swift 2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 4
Northern Flicker 12
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 8
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 1 molting adult, w/ characteristic yellow throat and underparts, gray wash on upper breast, yellow eye ring, small bill
Acadian Flycatcher 2 both called
Least Flycatcher 1
Empidonax sp. 2
Red-eyed Vireo 12
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 6
Veery 1
Wood Thrush 1
American Robin X not as many as last two days but steady passage of singles and small groups
Gray Catbird 12
Northern Mockingbird 5 all 5 sitting together in same dead tree, flew off together south -- a odd sight
Blue-winged Warbler 3
Black-and-white Warbler 6
Common Yellowthroat 5
American Redstart 12
Northern Parula 2
Magnolia Warbler 10
Chestnut-sided Warbler 1
Canada Warbler 2
Baltimore Oriole 3
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