Dear Ospreyers,
It's time to get out there and practice your flycatcher identification. A walk around Patterson Park in Baltimore this morning yielded quite a lot of flycatchers and a few warblers too. All are migrants (Eastern Kingbird is the only flycatcher to nest in the park).
I also saw an interesting looking bat, which I first noticed because it was disturbed from a tree by the Cooper's hawk fight with a couple of crows. The bat flushed and flew for about 200m in the open before disappearing behind some trees. It was fairly large and was a rich golden buff colour on the body. The colour seemed unusual for a bat - any ideas on species?
Migrants seen this morning were:
Least Flycatcher 3
Great-crested Flycatcher 2
Eastern Wood-pewee 2
Traill's Flycatcher 1
Cooper's hawk 1
American Kestrel 1
Black-and-White Warbler 1
Magnolia Warbler 1
Yellow Warbler 4
Gray Catbird 1
Dave
David Curson, PhD
Director of Bird Conservation,
Audubon MD-DC,
2437 Eastern Avenue,
Baltimore MD 21224
Tel: (410) 558 2473
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