We arrived at the parking lot at Hammond Hill at 9:00, not expecting to
find much singing at that late hour in light rain, but we were pleasantly
surprised.
We hiked about .5 mi. on the Yellow 1 Trail (a moderately steep, somewhat
muddy trail that starts directly across the road from the parking lot on
Hammond Hill Road), turning left at the T, to the old orchard a short way
past the T that Wes described yesterday. On our way up we were treated to
lots of singing CANADA WARBLERS, several of whom we saw with very little
effort around the blow down area before the T. We also heard BLACKBURNIAN
WARBLERS, OVENBIRDS, COMMON RAVEN, WOOD THRUSH, and a WINTER WREN. At the
old orchard, we heard the GOLDEN-WINGED/BREWSTER'S WARBLER sing 3 times
over about 15 minutes, always from deep in the orchard, but we saw no sign
of the bird.
We heard no MOURNING WARBLER until we were well on our way back down. Then
I heard the song in the distance, so we returned to the blow down, where we
were treated to magnificent looks at a male singing persistently and
foraging right near the trail. Since we were that close and the weather had
brightened, we returned to the orchard but heard no buzzing song. On our
way down, we heard BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER and BLUE-HEADED VIREO in
addition to the other birds we had been hearing but no Winter Wren.
Tim and Anne Marie Johnson
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