Plenty of interseting birds, including hummingbird and 11 warbler species, many of them new to me since I haven't been birding in North America in May before. Two wonderful mornings in the woods at the escarpments with lots of beautiful birds.
/Thomas
May 13th
1 Common Merganser
1 Sharp-shinned Hawk
1 Cooper's Hawk (new species)
10 Ring-billed Gull
5 Mourning Dove
1 Downy Woodpecker
5 Blue Jay
1 Black-capped Chickadee
2 Swainson's Thrush (new species)
2 Wood Thrush (first of season)
20 American Robin
3 Gray Catbird (first of season May 12)
2 Northern Mockingbird
10 European Starling
4 Nashville Warbler
1 Northern Parula (new species)
1 Chestnut-sided Warbler (new species)
3 Magnolia Warbler (new species)
1 Black-throated Blue Warbler (new species, a female that I had difficulties identifying. Thought of vireo at first and nailed the ID when I found the white square on the wing of the female BTBW)
12 Yellow-rumped Warbler
3 Black-throated Green Warbler
1 Blackburnian Warbler (new species May 12)
1 Black-and-white Warbler (new species May 12)
1 American Redstart (new species)
4 Chipping Sparrow
2 Song Sparrow
4 White-throated Sparrow
8 Northern Cardinal
1 Indigo Bunting (first of season)
3 Red-winged Blackbird
8 Common Grackle
2 Brown-headed Cowbird
2 Baltimore Oriole (first of season)
3 House Finch
7 American Goldfinch
5 House Sparrow
May 12th
3 Ring-billed Gull
5 Mourning Dove
1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird (first of season, such an exotic bird!)
1 Downy Woodpecker
5 American Crow
2 Barn Swallow
10 American Robin
2 Gray Catbird (first of season)
1 Nashville Warbler
2 Yellow Warbler
8 Yellow-rumped Warbler
1 Blackburnian Warbler (new species)
1 Black-and-white Warbler (new species)
1 Song Sparrow
4 Northern Cardinal
2 Red-winged Blackbird
7 Common Grackle
1 American Goldfinch
10 House Sparrow
