Saturday, May 1, 2010

Mt. Auburn 5/1

Lots and lots of birds and birders at Mt. Auburn today. Highlights from the BBC walk:

Wood Duck - 2 flyover
Common Loon - flyover going west
Green Heron - flyover
Cooper's Hawk - 1
hawk sp - interesting bird flew by as I was leaving, not a Cooper's and not a Red-tail but didn't get much on it
Blue-headed Vireo - 3+
Warbling Vireo - 1 Dell/tower
Hermit Thrush - 6+ (also heard of Veery in the Dell)
Gray Catbird - several
Cedar Waxwing - everywhere
Nashville Warbler - 3+
Northern Parula - 3+
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler - everywhere
Black-throated Green Warbler - 3
Palm Warbler - many
Black-and-white Warbler - 5+
American Redstart - 1 (thanks Linda)
(second hand report that the Worm-eating was still around in the same general area)
White-crowned Sparrow - 1 Spectacle
Baltimore Oriole - 2+ (1 singing outside my window right now as well)
Orchard Oriole - 1 Spectacle (thanks Jeff)
Somewhere around 50 species.