There are apparently an unusual number of black-throated blue warblers around this year, at least in central Lake County. I heard three on June 11 while walking around Cat Lake, which is NW of Isabella. This morning, when I picked up my Breeding Bird Survey assistant, Johnnie Hyde, she mentioned that they had one the night before in their yard (i.e. woods) for the first time on Gander Lake, a few miles away. When we ran the BBS route, we picked up four more singing at listening stops along FR173 and 175. I'm not even sure we've had two before in any of the 40+ years Jan Green and I have run that route. On the way back I heard a fifth one out the window while driving 30mph down a noisy gravel road. I can safely say that has never happened to me before.
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