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Mourning Warbler at Schoolhouse Pond

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Fred Shaffer

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Fred Shaffer

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Mon, 21 May 2012 14:05:32 -0400

During my lunchtime walk today, I had a singing Mourning Warbler close to the boardwalk around the rear of the Schoolhouse Pond.  I listened to the bird sing for ten minutes or so.  Despite being fairly close and apparently moving around a bit, the bird remained out of sight the whole time.  The location where the bird was singing from was fairly low in the dense underbrush, twenty feet or so from the boardwalk.  When walking counter clockwise around the pond (from Governor Oden Bowie Drive), the bird was on the lefthand side (pond side) of the boardwalk,  just after the asphalt trail transitions back into the boardwalk and just before the residential townhouses.  The bird was in the underbrush on the "pond side" of the boardwalk.  It was very close to the location where Jeff Shenot found a Mourning Warbler at the pond a few years back.  

Other birds seen or heard this morning and lunchtime included American Redstarts, Northern Parula, Prothonotary Warbler, several Blackpoll Warblers, Eastern Kingbird (apparently nesting in a pondside sycamore), Eastern Wood Pewee, a vocal Indigo Bunting, Orchard Oriole and a male Wood Duck.   Incidentally, I've had both singing Orchard and Baltimore Orioles consistently at the pond this spring.  

Fred Shaffer
Crofton, Anne Arundel


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