Late post:
Erin and I hit Hughes Hollow and Sycamore Landing on the morning of July 4th.
Highlights included:
Hughes Hollow
1 brief flyby RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
1 first year BALD EAGLE (soaring)
hatch-year Tree Swallows; Rough-winged Swallows, loads of Indigo
Buntings, Eastern Bluebird, Green Heron, Great Egret, Great Blue
Heron, Canada Goose, Northern Parula (along Hunting Quarter Rd),
Prothonotary Warbler, Acadian Flycatcher, Eastern Wood-Pewee, Great
Crested Flycatcher, Eastern Kingbird, Common Grackle, Red-winged
Blackbird, Fish & American Crows, Wood Thrush, American Goldfinch,
Northern Cardinal, Mourning Dove, Catbird....
Two birders who were there earlier told us they had a LEAST BITTERN
flush from the marsh, but no such luck for us.
Sycamore Landing
Added a Yellow-billed Cuckoo heard along the towpath
Photographed an Acadian Flycatcher on a NEST, suspended directly
above Sycamore Landing Road.
Good birding,
Dan |