This morning from 8:30-10:30am along the Kingsley Schoolhouse trail: all
the expected nesters were present. Some highlights were good looks at a
chat in the thicket not far from the parking lot, a screech owl in an
old pileated woodpecker hole in a sycamore tree, and a kentucky warbler
at eye level by the stream and large rock outcrop just before the
schoolhouse. Indigo buntings, common yellowthroat, prairie and parula
warblers were numerous. Other wildlife included: copperhead snake, box
turtle, green tiger beetles, and butterflies: tiger and spicebush
swallowtails, red-spotted purples, red admirals, question mark, cabbage
white, eastern tailed blue, clouded sulphur, silver-spotted skipper, and
Juvenal's duskywing.
Going the other direction toward Earl's picnic area, blue-winged
warblers were "singing" in the roadside thickets. And Lola, after I left
you, there was a yellow-billed cuckoo on the slope across the road from
the bluebird box.
At the Little Bennett golf course ponds nearest the barns, there were
tree swallows, barn swallows and a few purple martins. A solitary
sandpiper was along the shore of the pond with the lower water level.
Denise Gibbs