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[Bob Reilly <rjreilly@xxxxxxx>]

Nice day around the Dutch Gap loop.  Encounters included the following:

A. redstart (many)
Prothonotary warbler (quite a few...banded 5 males, four in breeding condition)
yellow-throated warbler (quite a few)
northern waterthrush
northern parula warbler
yellow warbler
common yellowthroat
yellow-rumped warbler
hooded warbler

and a summer tanager

What a pleasure.

Bob Reilly



Al Warfield wrote:

> We had one yesterday in the back yard. I noticed loud drumming. We have a bat 
> house about 25 feet up in a tall tulip poplar. There have never been any bats 
> in it. The pileated was below the bat house drumming on the entrance, which 
> is too narrow for that bird. It was also chipping away the wood at the 
> entrance. It stayed there and drummed/chipped for about 20 minutes before 
> deciding it was useless. Last year a pair nested in a nearby tree, which was 
> hollow and broke off about 30 feet from the ground during the fall storms. 
> The bird was probably looking for another nest site.
>
> Al & Linda Warfield
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