(cross-posted to GABO-L with less gory detail)
Yesterday, Bill O'Grady, Karla O'Grady, and I had 2 end-of-August VEERIES feeding on a high density of fox grapes above the lower parking lot at the botgarden. They were joined in short order by a Wood Thrush. We also had a Green Heron and the continuing immature WHITE IBIS in the river along the orange trail. I went back last evening to get my first botgarden Common Nighthawk of the year, which was species number 85 there for the month of August according to ebird.
A lot of new migrants seemingly showed up overnight, and today we had an even better day. The biggest surprise was a LEAST FLYCATCHER on the orange trail along its SE border with the beaverpond near the river. 2 BALTIMORE ORIOLES were also nice. Although it was mostly dead silent (even the cicadas) with lots of bird downtime, we hit a couple great pockets of activity along the river including one along the white trail that had 9 warbler species giving great views at close range. A late Louisiana Waterthrush was STILL singing across the river from the orange trail; along with an Ovenbird and 2 Northern Waterthrushes, we swept the Seiurus species (my second botgarden Seiurus sweep of the year, the first coming in early May). We tallied 13 warbler species and 6 flycatcher species on the day. Our ebird report, along with some specific location information, is below.
Notes: LEFL along orange trail bordering Beaverpond about 8 m away from it's divergence from the river. Large head, gray color, short primary projection, bold white eye ring, complete lack of yellow underneath all noted while in field. OVEN on orange trail along river. LOWA still singing from across river on orange trail near purple junction. Groups of warblers encountered on orange trail near purple junction and, especially, on white trail about 300 m downstream of the white/blue junction. EAKI family in perennial garden. BAOR seen and heard at powerline and at white trail warbler hotspot.
Number of species: 56
Great Blue Heron 2
Great Egret 1 (white trail @ warbler spot)
Turkey Vulture 2
Red-shouldered Hawk 2
Rock Pigeon 10
Mourning Dove 7
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1 (heard briefly, white trail)
Chimney Swift 20
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 15 (most on Spotted Jewelweed in beaverpond wetland)
Belted Kingfisher 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 10
Downy Woodpecker 5
Hairy Woodpecker 4
Pileated Woodpecker 2
Eastern Wood-Pewee 2
Acadian Flycatcher 5
Least Flycatcher 1 (see notes above)
Eastern Phoebe 7
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
Eastern Kingbird 4 (family in powerline perennial garden)
White-eyed Vireo 16
Yellow-throated Vireo 1 (perennial garden)
Red-eyed Vireo 4
Blue Jay 6
American Crow 12
Fish Crow 1
Carolina Chickadee 15
Tufted Titmouse 25
Carolina Wren 16
House Wren 1 (lower powerline)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 18
Eastern Bluebird 5
Gray Catbird 3
Brown Thrasher 7
European Starling 41
Northern Parula 2 (white trail warbler spot: see notes above)
Chestnut-sided Warbler 5 (1 orange trail, 4+ white trail warbler spot)
Pine Warbler 3 (perennial garden)
Black-and-white Warbler 1 (male, white trail warbler spot)
American Redstart 3 (2+ white trail warbler spot; 1 orange trail, all immature/female types)
Worm-eating Warbler 2 (1 white trail warbler spot; 1 orange trail)
Ovenbird 1 (orange trail)
Northern Waterthrush 2 (1 white trail warbler spot, 1 orange trail)
Louisiana Waterthrush 1 (orange trail)
Kentucky Warbler 3 (1 orange trail, 2 white trail warbler spot)
Common Yellowthroat 3 (2 lower powerline, 1 beaverpond)
Hooded Warbler 6 (orange and white trails, 3 ft look at male at white trail warbler spot)
Canada Warbler 1 (immature female at white trail warbler spot)
Summer Tanager 1 (perennial garden)
Eastern Towhee 5
Song Sparrow 1 (lower powerline)
Northern Cardinal 30
Indigo Bunting 4
Baltimore Oriole 2 (lower powerline, white trail warbler spot)
House Finch 6
American Goldfinch 14
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(
http://ebird.org)
