Greetings Holly (and LEAS):
Spring migration tends to be rather short; fall migration rather
protracted. Most warblers blast through Lubbock between the second
week of April and the third week of May with a few species (notably
MacGillivray's Warbler, Yellow Warbler, and Wilson's Warbler) pushing
into the last week of May or even, to the consternation of the
Breeding Bird Survey folk, the first week of June!
Fall migration is more protracted with warblers moving through from
mid-August (Louisiana Waterthrush) through mid to late October (again
with MacGillivray's Warbler and Wilson's Warbler being the standouts).
The warblers that overwinter are, in order of abundance: Yellow-rumped
Warbler, Orange-crowned Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, and, oddly
enough, Pine Warbler..
One species of warbler (Common Yellowthroat) breeds regularly at
wetlands in the region and Black-and-white Warblers are suspected of
breeding at some of our more wooded sites in our eastern counties (two
were observed carrying food items during a summer visit to the
woodlands north of White River Lake, Crosby County, for example ...
and singing birds have been heard in the woodlands around Afton in
Dickens County during early summer.
Yellow Warblers have bred just to the north of our region in some of
the Panhandle Counties per Seyffert but this appears to have ended in
the late 1950s.
Anthony Hewetson
On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 6:14 PM Holly Bundock <holly.bundock@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Have all the warblers flown away? I haven’t seen a single one in several
days, and I haven’t seen any reports of any on eBird either.
This seems like it’s been an unusual year, anyway, but can someone enlighten
me about approximately when warblers are typically in Lubbock?
Thank you.
-Holly
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