Date: 10/5/12 1:24 pm
From: Timothy Houghton <thoughton...>
Subject: [MDBirding] FW: Irvine NC, ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER, Lincoln's



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From: Timothy Houghton
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 4:15 PM
To: Timothy Houghton; <mdbirding...>
Subject: RE: Irvine NC, ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER, Lincoln's

I called my wife to send the real-time report earlier. Now for more detail. By far-left marsh I mean, if you stand at the gazebo and go straight downhill along the tree line that's a little to the left and keep going to the end of it, you can see a marsh area to the left and ahead. The marsh area is L-shaped, so if you go the joint of the (flipped) L and then turn left, just walk about 2/3 of the way back up along the marsh and that's where I had some nice birds, including the ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER.

I was admiring two gorgeous Tennessee Warblers (lovely greens and yellows) when I noticed--WOH!--a grayer bird nearby: a 1st-winter female orange-crowned: gray head, eye ring, dark eye stripe, gray/faint-green back, faintly streaked breast, faint yellow-green wash underneath, yellow undertail coverts seen several times and clearly--everything. The view was sunny and close, good as could be. At the same spot, too: a Lincoln's sparrow and a palm warbler--a nice bunch of birds. This area is btw the cattails and a thin line of trees--made up of thorn bushes, shrubs, grasses, a few stunted trees. Very dense but with a trail through it. For eBird:

http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S11721173

Several thrush got away. Not real sparrowy but ok. Selected birds:

ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER (1)
Tennessee warbler (2)
Palm Warbler (3)
Yellow-Rumped Warbler (1)
Black-Throated Blue (4)
RC Kinglet (10)
GC Kinglet (6)
Lincoln's Sparrow (1)
Swainson's Thrush (1)
YB Sapsucker (3)

Tim Houghton
(Glen Arm)


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From: <mdbirding...> [<mdbirding...>] On Behalf Of Timothy Houghton [<thoughton...>]
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 10:45 AM
To: <mdbirding...>
Subject: [MDBirding] Irvine Nature Center, Orange-Crowned, Lincoln's

In far left marsh right now.

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