So migration has been slowww this spring. Today was better though, with over a dozen warbler species between Arapaho and Prairie Creek. The predawn rains probably halted some of the migrants. Finally picked up Bay-breasted Warbler, first one of the spring I've seen. And only the SECOND Ovenbird of the whole spring!! Today's finds at Prairie Creek:
Great Egret - 1 dropped down onto the lawn and proceeded to snatch a poor Carolina Anole from his display perch
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2
Black-chinned Hummingbird - 1 male
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 2++
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 2
"Traill's" Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Great Crested Flycatcher
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1
Gray-cheeked Thrush - 2-3 including a singer
Swainson's Thrush - 10+
Gray Catbird - 4
Blue-headed Vireo - 2+
Warbling Vireo - 1-2
Red-eyed Vireo - 5+
Yellow Warbler - 3
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3-4
Magnolia Warbler - 8
Black-throated Green Warbler - 6-8
Blackburnian Warbler - 2-3 ad male, 2 fem/imm
Bay-breasted Warbler - 1 fem/imm
American Redstart - 1 ad male, 1 imm male, 3-4 fem/imm
Ovenbird - 1
Mourning Warbler - 1 ad m, 1 fem/imm
Common Yellowthroat - 2 fem/imm
Wilson's Warbler - 10
Canada Warbler - 1 fem/imm
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 HO
Baltimore Oriole - 2
Derek
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