Tyler Bell:
Went for a bike ride at lunch. More stopping than biking as the birds
were very cooperative! Someone mentioned tons of Wood Thrushes which is
exactly what I found also. They seemed to be everywhere.

Black-and-White (1)
Black-throated Blue (3)
Black-throated Green (1)
Myrtle (X)
Ovenbird (X)
Parula (X)
Pine (3)
Prothonotary (1)

Tyler says the above birds were "cooperative". Black-throated Greens are a
species I would easily put in my list of the top 10 least cooperative birds.
    Example - I spent this morning hiking the White Rocks trail at
Sugarloaf. This is a trail well off of what I would consider the main
mountain, where all the parking lots are. I got to it via a
yellow-blazed-horse-trail-road off of Mt. Ephraim Rd. About a quarter of a
mile up the trail I was treated to one of those warbler fall-outs that
everybody dreams of. The canopy was alive with noise and flittage. One of
the more dominating sounds was that familiar zee-zee-zoo-zoo-zee. For twenty
minutes I stood there checking out every bird I could get my bins on. Most
of what I found were YELLOW-RUMPED, a few BLACK-THROATED BLUES and a couple
BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLERS. It took me twenty minutes to finally get a look at
one of the multitude of BLACK-THROATED GREENS. By then my poor neck was a
mess so I moved on.
    Also had plenty of OVENBIRDS, WORM-EATING WARBLERS and a few
GREAT-CRESTED FLYCATCHERS, SCARLET TANAGERS, RED-EYED VIREOS  and down along
the stream, some very vocal LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH and WOOD THRUSH.
    Wonderful day for a hike. Anybody wanna come rub my poor neck?
    Jerry Tarbell