Good morning! Saturday morning, I birded our driveway for about three hours,
and was rewarded many times over. Never could find the yellow-breasted chats
that were singing, but got nice looks at a male scarlet tanager, common
yellow-throat, kingbird, prairie and parula warblers, pileated woodpecker,
flicker, blue-gray gnatcatcher, red-headed woodpecker, blue-winged warbler,
scads of friendly field sparrows, some with nesting material, yellow-throated
vireo, Baltimore oriole, thrasher, catbird, warbling vireo and probably more.
As you can tell, that just came out in a stream of consciousness. As a bonus, I
tried to befriend a large female box turtle crossing the driveway, who wasn’t
at all interested in any such relationship and clammed up in her shell. I heard
a summer tanager and a Kentucky warbler, the later of whom had led JB and I on
a merry chase of hide and seek the day before (very elusive bird). I wasn’t
into getting ticks, so I didn’t try that again, but he or they have been
singing steadily on the west side of the driveway for days, at least a week,
now. Still no hummingbirds and no grosbeaks.
Yesterday, JB and I went to Phiefer (spelling?) fish hatchery and watched a
male Wilson phalarope feeding in the same puddle (fuddle?) for several minutes.
As Robert Chadwick reported, there were scads of swallows flying over the fish
ponds. We had identified all of those reported, except for the bank swallow.
The bald eagle attempt to steal the fish from the great-blue heron was fun to
watch. Thanks, Rob, for letting us know about that event at the hatchery. After
we returned home, the sun came out about 7:30! It had been rainy and overcast
most of the day.
Joyce Fry in northern Franklin County. Bird safe!
🐦🌻🐝🐢🐍 What would we do without nature?
On Apr 26, 2020, at 8:47 PM, Steve & Debby Tyson <kytysons9152@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
We counted 62 species, here, this weekend. I don’t really have a precedent
for this time in April, because we’ve often been away over the last weekend.
If the weather had cooperated, it could have been an all-around record
breaker, though. Yesterday morning was okay, but from about 11:00 AM on it
rained steadily. Today was wind-driven mist or sprinkles, until late
afternoon. It was mostly a mess.,
Our most remarkable finds were the FOY Red-shouldered and a number of
also-migrating Broad-winged Hawks, on Friday evening. I also had a Red-tail
that evening, which gave us a never-before three Buteo day. I saw at least
six more Broad-wings, before the rain really kicked in, yesterday morning. I
also saw many migrating Blue Jays, probably 50 or more, along with the many
Cedar Waxwings that I reported yesterday morning. A Chat, for the second
consecutive weekend, was really special.
We counted our FOY Yellow Warbler and Baltimore Oriole, yesterday, and a
lovely male Rose-breasted Grosbeak, at the feeders, this morning. The
Orioles are apparently sipping tulip polar nectar, because the poplars are in
full bloom, now, and that’s the only place I saw and heard them. Each flower
has an orange skirt, which might help to draw Orioles...?
I posted some photos to Flickr, through the weekend, but I’m adding all three
eBird lists too; Friday’s is included only because it has a great recording
of two Red-headeds who were yammering nearby when I went to fill the feeders.
Saturday’s includes some photos and an okay recording of the Chat, and
Sunday’s includes the Rose-breasted Grosbeak and some other regulars.
eBird - Friday
eBird - Saturday
eBird - Sunday
Stephen Tyson, Schochoh, Logan Co.
Species Name:
Canada Goose
Mallard
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Mourning Dove
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Killdeer
Great Blue Heron
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Northern Harrier
Cooper's Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk (FOY)
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Great Horned Owl
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
American Kestrel
Eastern Kingbird
Blue Jay
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
White-breasted Nuthatch
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
House Wren
Carolina Wren
European Starling
Brown Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
Cedar Waxwing
House Sparrow
American Pipit
House Finch
American Goldfinch
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Eastern Towhee
Yellow-breasted Chat
Eastern Meadowlark
Baltimore Oriole (FOY)
Red-winged Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Common Grackle
Yellow Warbler (FOY)
Palm Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak (FOY)
Blue Grosbeak
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