Three of us joined the Northern Virginia bird club's outing to Thompson WMA.
The trip was quickly called off due to thunder, lightning, and heavy rain. A
few of us remained to press our luck and were well rewarded with nice looks at
singing cerulean warblers and a black-billed cuckoo during a 2 hour hiatus
between storms. The trilliums and orchids along the trail are in full bloom
right now. The cuckoo was in a small apple tree where the Trillium trail
emerges onto farm fields. The cuckoo was missing all of its tail feathers and
tolerated us being quite close. We had nice looks at its red orbital ring and
black bill, cool bird. Migrants and interesting residents were as follows:
yellow-billed cuckoo (2)black-billed cuckoo (1)ruby-throated hummingbird
(female)Eastern wood pewee (2)Acadian flycatcher (4)great-crested flycatcher
(1)barn swallow (1)gray catbird (8)northern mockingbird (1)hermit thrush
(2)wood thrush (10)blue-gray gnatcatcher (5)common raven (2)yellow-throated
vireo (2)blue-headed vireo (1)red-eyed vireo (7)Nashville warbler
(1)chestnut-sided warbler (3)magnolia warbler (7)black-throated blue warbler
(12)black-throated green warbler (5)blackburnian warbler (2)cerulean warbler
(5+) - at least one pair seen togetherblack-and-white warbler (1)American
redstart (15)worm-eating warbler (3)ovenbird (8)common yellowthroat (3)hooded
warbler (3)scarlet tanager (7)rose-breasted grosbeak (4)indigo bunting
(6)Eastern meadowlark (2) Philip Kline
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