Good evening.
Today Ian Cannell and I took a chance and headed over to the Islands despite the fog and another good move it was. With the fog continuing over there as we left this evening at 7 pm most of the birds that we saw may still be there tomorrow morning, maybe.
We found the White-eyed Vireo this morning as we headed west from the Wards Island housing area. The bird was in thick bushes about 35 yards east of the Senior Citizens house or about 100 yards past the last house at the start of the boardwalk or 25 feet in front of the allotment gardens at the seniors' bldg. This bird spent most of it's time feeding on the front edges of the bushes.
Some of the other 67 bird species we found as we walked along on a very nice, windless day were - Pied-billed Grebes, Trumpeter Swan, Hooded Mergansers, Wood Ducks, Merlin, 15 Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers, 21 N. Flickers, Hairy and Downy Woodpeckers, 5 late Least Flycatchers, 22 E. Phoebes, both Nuthatches, Brown Creepers, 2 Carolina Wrens, 31 Winter Wrens, many Ruby-crowned and Golden-crowned Kinglets, Veerys, 18 Gray-cheeked Thrushes, Swainson's, Hermit and Wood Thrushes, Brown Thrashers, 30 A. Pipits, White-eyed, Blue-headed and Red-eyed Vireos, 8 Warbler species including Tennessee, Black-throated Blue and Wilson's as well as an Ovenbird, 7 Sparrow species including E. Towhees, Lincoln's and Swamp Sparrows, and 111 White-crowned and 196 White-throated Sparrows.
Another good day down there on the under birded islands.
