A very non-descript Yellow-rumped Warbler….but a Yellow-rumped Warbler nonetheless…and the first of the Fall season. -N. Furber
Boy, it doesn’t take long for the air to heat up as soon as the sun clears the horizon – whether you’re at Ruthven or Fern Hill in Burlington. And when it does, the birds sort of take a siesta….and you wish you could too! Slow going at Ruthven:
Banded 16:
2 Black-capped Chickadees
2 Gray-cheeked Thrushes
1 Gray Catbird
1 Blue-headed Vireo
This has been a good season so far for Blue-headed Vireos at Ruthven. -N. Furber
2 Red-eyed Vireos
1 Tennessee Warbler
1 Black-throated Blue Warbler
1 Yellow-rumped Warbler
1 Blackpoll Warbler
1 Scarlet Tanager
2 Song Sparrows
1 White-throated Sparrow
ET’s: 35 spp.
Katherine, Madeline, and Melissa with Madeline’s favourite bird (and the first of the Fall season): Downy Woodpecker.
Fern Hill Burlington:
Katherine put the feeders up first thing this morning – the first time they’ve been available to birds since early June. But the birds hadn’t forgotten what they were all about; within minutes chickadees, followed shortly by other species, were at them. In the course of the morning we retrapped 8 chickadees, 3 of them from 2013 at the start of the banding program. They “knew” what those funny hanging things were for….
This Black-capped Chickadee is 4 years old – one of the first one banded by the program.
Banded 9:
1 Northern Flicker
1 Eastern Phoebe
1 Blue Jay
3 Black-capped Chickadees
1 Swainson’s Thrush
1 Chipping Sparrow
1 American Goldfinch
ET’s: 30 spp. (including a small flight -7- Broad-winged Hawks)
Madeline and Melissa with a Northern Flicker.
Eastern Phoebe.
A very young Chipping Sparrow.
Go Jays!!!
Rick