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Wedding day list, Rigby's Folly, May 19, 2012.

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Harry Armistead

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Harry Armistead

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Sat, 26 May 2012 15:57:18 +0000

WEDDING DAY LIST, Rigby¡¦s Folly, May 19, 2012, Saturday.
 
On the wedding day of Anne Armistead and Derek Ayres several observers list birds found on the old place.  In the morning George Armistead and Will Russell give the back 40 a good going over.  With 110 wedding guests due c. 3:30 P.M. I am close to catatonic, but chip in some.  After the wedding Bonnie & Whit Mallam see 2 Chuck-will¡¦s-widows fly cross the driveway.  
 
All during the ceremony an Eastern Kingbird is perched above us all on the tip top of a tall, dead Black Locust, apparently unfazed by Handel¡¦s ¡¥Water music,¡¦ Bach¡¦s ¡¥Air on a G-string,¡¦ Nicole Compte¡¦s reading of a prayer by St. Francis of Assisi, George Armistead¡¦s reading of the ¡¥Velveteen Rabbit¡¦ by Margery Williams, Boni Joi Koelliker¡¦s reading of the ending of James Joyce¡¦s ¡¥Ulysses,¡¦ Mary Armistead¡¦s reading of ¡¥Today is ours¡¦ by Abraham Cowly, the extensive, heartfelt vows of the bethrothed, occasional applause, and so on.
 
But, I digress ¡K here are today¡¦s birds.  58 species.  
 
Canada goose 1.  double-crested cormorant 14.  great blue heron 1.  green heron 1.  GLOSSY IBIS 3 (GA; headed due north, only about the 7th property record).  black vulture 2.  turkey vulture 8.  osprey 12.  bald eagle 1 adult.  red-tailed hawk 1.  laughing gull 1.  ring-billed gull 2.  
 
mourning dove 2.  yellow-billed cuckoo 2.  chuck-will¡¦s-widow 2.  chimney swift 5.  ruby-throated hummingbird 2¡ð.  red-bellied woodpecker 2.  downy woodpecker 4.  hairy woodpecker 2.  pileated woodpecker 1.  eastern wood pewee 1.  great crested flycatcher 6.  eastern kingbird 2.  white-eyed vireo 2.  red-eyed vireo 1.  
 
blue jay 5.  American crow 9.  fish crow 2.  purple martin 2.  tree swallow 2.  barn swallow 4.  Carolina chickadee 18.  tufted titmouse 8.  BROWN-HEADED NUTHATCH 1 (GA,HA; they disappeared as a property breeding species in 1984; this is one of about 5 records since then, no doubt a wandering individual).  Carolina wren 8.  eastern bluebird 6.  Swainson¡¦s thrush 1.  American robin 5.  gray catbird 1.  northern mockingbird 1.  European starling 3.  cedar waxwing 2.  
 
common yellowthroat 3.  magnolia warbler 1.  yellow warbler 1.  pine warbler 11.  prairie warbler 1 (after a lapse of 10 years or so, during which our scrubby areas have become low woodlands, a territorial rogue ¡ñ seems to be open for business anyway).  
 
chipping sparrow 1.  northern cardinal 14.  blue grosbeak 6.  indigo bunting 2.  red-winged blackbird 9.  common grackle 32.  brown-headed cowbird 8.  house finch 1.  American goldfinch 1. ¡K and ¡K to end on a low note, house sparrow 3.            
 
Best to all. ¡V Harry Armistead, Philadelphia. 		 	   		  

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