Howdy all,
The last two days have been very dead in the way of banding. Our two day
total was an amazing 8 birds!! Wow! Great! ... Not!
There were a few more birds in the park this morning, however. Although it
didn't mean we caught more, sadly. We did catch our first BLACK-THROATED GREEN
WARBLER of the season. While killing time between net runs, we managed to find
our first WORM-EATING WARBLER for our little area this season. I had a small
group of three BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLERS, a few YELLOW PALM WARBLERS, and a
PRAIRIE WARBLER move through the station about 730 this morning. Farther up
Long
Creek trail a WHITE-EYED VIREO was singing. BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHERS are on the
decline (only three seen today) but the TREE SWALLOWS were way up (group of 50+
feeding over White Hill Lake).
A SNOWY EGRET and GREEN HERON put in their appearance today along with 4
LESSER YELLOWLEGS.
Totals for 4/12:
Yellow Palm Warbler 2
Common Yellowthroat 1
Hermit Thrush 1
TOTAL --------------------- 4
Totals for 4/13:
Black-throated Green Warbler 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Hermit Thrush 2
TOTAL ------------------------------ 4
Cheers,
Jethro Runco
Head songbird bander
Coastal Virginia Wildlife Observatory