What started out as a slow but beautiful day for my first-ever visit to Cromwell Valley turned exciting thanks to John Landers who pointed me in the right directions and thanks to the mini-fallout around the boarded-up creekside house with the broken "CROMW" sign on it. These warbler species in numbers--magnolia, black-and-white, redstart (including a great male), chestnut-sided, and common yellowthroat--as well as BLACK-THROATED BLUE (one female) and Blackburnian (one male). Other birds that were notable, at least to me: warbling vireo (2), a female indigo, a brown thrasher, and some gnatcatchers. Flickers. Many empids: acadian, probably least, and willow/acadian (?), and one very yellow on belly.  A fun day.

Tim Houghton
(Glen Arm)