[va-bird] In Search of the Chestnut-sided

VA Birders,
Finding our first of the season CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER was the goal for my wife 
and me today. We headed again for Horn Mountain, where that warbler is usually 
abundant. We decided to make periodic stops to look and listen for 
Chestnut-sideds and for Kentucky Warblers. We had traveled only a half mile 
here on Compton Mt, when we heard the first Chestnut-sided. We continued on to 
Horn Mt, but found no Chestnut-sideds there. We did find NORTHERN PARULAS, 
REDSTARTS, OVENBIRDS, BLACK-AND-WHITES, SCARLET TANAGERS, RED-EYED VIREOS, 
BlUE-HEADED VIREOS and others.
During the course of the day we made a large loop and came home up the opposite 
side of Compton Mt. At one point we stopped and there was a male 
CHESTNUT-SIDED, the second of the day. In the same area was our first of the 
season YELLOW-THROATED VIREO.

After reaching home we found out that our resident male YELLOW WARBLER had 
found a mate. The female YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER was back at the suet feeder, 
and the female ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK was also back. 

Later in the evening the adult COOPER'S HAWK, that has been visiting the feeder 
area often, flew into the feeder tree to look around, while one of the DOWNY'S 
froze under a branch only 4 feet away. The hawk soon flew on.

Thursday we are going to the Breaks Interstate Park in search of the first of 
the season Swainson's Warbler. They nest there every year.
So goes the avian life here in our little part of VA.

Roger Mayhorn
Compton Mt
Buchanan County  
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