My neighborhood trees are greened out ... the mature red oaks, silver maples, Green Ash, White and Pitch Pines attracted many waves of passerines today that I saw by noon.
The first wave at 7 am was the best I saw, here is what I tallied: 1. Yellow-rumped Warbler (10+), flycatching, singing (4), staying to lower canopy mostly, but also down to ground 2. Magnolia Warbler (4), all male, 2 singing, stayed in mid canopy - mostly the pines, bathing in my waterfall 3. Bay-breasted Warbler (1), male, singing in White Pines 4. Blackburnian Warbler (1), male, foraging high in Ash trees, call notes 5. American Redstart (5), 3 male, 2 female, calling and males singing, with flashy flycatching forays 6. Chestnut-side Warbler (2), male, singing and foraging mid-canopy 7. Yellow Warbler (2), males (singing) foraging mid canopy 8. Blue-winged Warbler (1), sex unknown, silently foraging high in red oaks 9. Golden-winged Warbler (3), all males, 2 seen singing, may have been more - their song was the commonest one heard today 10. Tennessee Warbler (2), males, heard singing in Silver Maple 11. Black and White Warbler, (1), adult male, silently nuthatch-like foraging along red oak trunk and main branches 12. Northern Waterthrush (1), male singing and foraging near brush pile 13. Palm Warbler (2), lower canopy and ground foraging Vireos: 1. Blue Headed , softly singing 2. Yellow Throated, loudly singing 3. Warbling, silent 4. Red-eyed, flying through with scolding calls Mark Alt Brooklyn Center, MN P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
