What a difference a day makes. Yesterday there were virtually no warblers around other than the local breeders: Blue-winged, Yellow, and Common Yellowthroats and we handled a lot of American Goldfinches but today it was largely warblers! We encountered 12 species. Further, we had 6 new arrivals for the year: Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Philadelphia Vireo, Red-eyed Vireo (including one we had banded last year), Orange-crowned Warbler, Chestnut-sided Warbler, and Scarlet Tanager. And American Goldfinch numbers were down.
May 13th (Mother’s Day); Banded 52:
2 Tree Swallows
1 Tufted Titmouse
2 House Wrens
1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
5 Gray Catbirds
1 Cedar Waxwing
1 Warbling Vireo
3 Blue-winged Warblers
1 Nashville Warbler
8 Yellow Warblers
4 Common Yellowthroats
2 Rose-breasted Grosbeaks
1 Red-winged Blackbird
3 Baltimore Orioles
17 American Goldfinches
1 House Sparrow
ET’s: 55 spp.
May 14th; Banded 60:
1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1 House Wren
1 Veery
7 Gray Catbirds
1 Nashville Warbler
1 Orange-crowned Warbler
10 Yellow Warblers
4 Chestnut-sided Warblers
7 Magnolia Warblers
1 Myrtle Warbler
1 Black & White Warbler
3 American Redstarts
1 Ovenbird
4 Common Yellowthroats
1 Indigo Bunting
2 Song Sparrows
5 Baltimore Orioles
1 Orchard Oriole
8 American Goldfinches
ET’s: 64 spp.
Photos:
Rick