Greetings All:
Sorry about the Northern Paris (dang autocorrect) I posted to the
listserv - I meant Northern Parula.
Drew Harvey and I got to the first crossing below Lake Six at about
9:00 and almost immediately got on the Blue-winged Warbler (Drew got a
better look than I did but I saw it well enough to, again, get the
impression that both wingbars were a bit narrower than illustrated in
Sibley). The bird appears to favor the hard to access (no trail) and
denser thickets a bit further downstream and is pretty skulky. There
were two Chestnut-sided Warblers present at this spot as well -
flitting amidst the more common stuff. Yellow-rumped Warbler and
swallows kept catching the eye, making it hard to pick out the
goodies.
A bit downstream we lucked into a vireo which proved to be a somewhat
drab Plumbeous Vireo and a stunning male Lazuli Bunting.
A ways further downstream, where the river broadens out considerably I
spotted a Red-eyed Vireo while Drew was oohing and aahing over a
Black-throated Green Warbler, We swapped locations and Drew got on
two Red-eyed Vireos and I got on two more Chestnut-sided Warblers as
well as what proved later to be two Black-throated Green Warblers - we
got one while headed downstream and, thanks to Brad Shine, I got two
at the same spot while walking upstream. While all this was going on
a Northern Waterthrush headed past us in the downstream direction.
Much further down, at the second road crossing, Drew popped up a
Black-and-white Warbler and I popped up a Prothonotary Warbler. We
are reasonably confident that two Prothonotary Warblers were present
as we were looking at birds in two thickets simultaneously and we
can't rule out three as, after the first one(s) went downstream
another popped up in foliage upstream ... but we are leaving it at
two.
A bit further down, just short of where the river passes under the
loop, Drew located a female Northern Parula.
All in all, we located roughly 75 species of birds in 3,75 hours and
my warbler list for the morning ended up being Northern Waterthrush,
Prothonotary Warbler, Black-and-white Warbler, Blue-winged Warbler,
Orange-crowned Warbler, MacGillivray's Warbler, Common Yellowthroat,
Northern Parula, Yellow Warbler, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Yellow-rumped
Warbler (Audubon's, Myrtle, and 'hybrids'), Black-throated Green
Warbler, and Wilson's Warbler, I was surprised that we did not get
American Redstart or Nashville Warbler.
Anthony Hewetson