I still had not seen my favorite warbler, Blackburnian, this season, 
so I decided to go to Soldier's Delight today. On the red trail a 
little beyond the old mine, I hit a nice pocket of warblers and got 
great looks at Blackburnian, Magnolia, Chestnut-sided, Nashville and 
Pine Warblers, and an exceptionally bright American Redstart all in 
the same few trees. This was such a good show I ignored the Summer 
Tanager singing down towards the big trail intersection. Over the 
course of five hours and about 3 miles I picked up 16 warbler species. 
A surprising miss was Yellow-breasted Chat. I also had a few well-seen 
Swainson's Thrushes.

The pleasantest surprise was an excellent look at a Lincoln's Sparrow 
in perfect field-guide plumage near Red Dog Lodge on the white 
trail -- probably my first sighting ever in spring in the East. So it 
was interesting to read about Matt Hafner and Bill Hubick's sighting 
the same day.

Location: Soldiers Delight NEA
Observation date: 5/15/08
Number of species: 57

Turkey Vulture 6
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 2
Mourning Dove 1
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1 (FOY)
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Downy Woodpecker 2
Hairy Woodpecker 2
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 4
Acadian Flycatcher 4
Eastern Phoebe 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 3
Eastern Kingbird 2
White-eyed Vireo 2
Red-eyed Vireo 11
Blue Jay 4
American Crow 11
Tree Swallow 2
Carolina Chickadee 8
Tufted Titmouse 3
White-breasted Nuthatch 3
Carolina Wren 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 6
Eastern Bluebird 5
Swainson's Thrush 3
Wood Thrush 7
American Robin 10
Gray Catbird 3
Northern Mockingbird 3
Brown Thrasher 1
Cedar Waxwing 2
Nashville Warbler 1
Chestnut-sided Warbler 4
Magnolia Warbler 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler 3
Black-throated Green Warbler 2
Blackburnian Warbler 1 <<<<<<<
Pine Warbler 2
Prairie Warbler 6
Bay-breasted Warbler 1
Blackpoll Warbler 3
Black-and-white Warbler 2
American Redstart 7
Ovenbird 4
Common Yellowthroat 1
Hooded Warbler 1
Canada Warbler 2
Eastern Towhee 4
Field Sparrow 4
Song Sparrow 1
Lincoln's Sparrow 1 <<<<<<<
Northern Cardinal 5
Indigo Bunting 2
Brown-headed Cowbird 7
Baltimore Oriole 1
American Goldfinch 5

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)