Out for some weekday birding with a couple of other ladies, we discovered
that again this year there is a pair of yellow-crowned night-herons nesting
in a sycamore tree on Shanks Rd. At Green Hill Park, we saw a warbling
vireo and an osprey, lots of tree swallows and chimney swifts, and a
hillside full of blooming trillium. In the upper elevations on Twelve
O'clock Knob, we heard blackpoll, black-throated green warbler, redstart and
wood thrush (such a relaxing sound, isn't it?), and we got good looks at
black-and-white warbler, worm-eating warbler, scarlet tanager, blue-headed
vireo, two great crested flycatchers and several blue-grey gnatcatchers and
ruby-crowned kinglets. But the most impressive sight for the morning had to
be one tree that held 8 male and 3 female rose-breasted grosbeaks. Is it
just me, or does there seem to be more than the usual number of grosbeak
sightings this year?
Alyce Quinn
Roanoke
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