Sunday, April 22, 2012

April 22, 2012 Grand Vue

Today's walk yielded many birds. First, blue bird boxes have one nest of 5 young birds and another box has 5 eggs. A coopers hawk flew through staying low to the ground as he came up over the hill toward the large area of mowed grass. Had I not been there I think he would have continued the path toward the area that holds 20 robins consistently. I remember posting last year about the pile of bluebird feathers. Anyway, todays birds: coopers and red tailed hawk, black throated green warbler, white throated sparrows, field, song, and chipping sparrows,cowbirds, white-eyed vereo, heard a turkey, blue birds, jays, crows, robins, cardinals (many nesting sites), towhees, red bellied, downy, and many flickers, maybe a sapsucker, and a bunch more.

April 19, 2012 Coopers Rock

While at the PLA conference at Lakeview I made two stops at Coopers Rock. I did not find the stand of virgin pines that Bill Beatty spoke of but I do need to find that location in hopes of seeing a black burnian warbler. Oh well, another day. I was able to see black throated greens and a black throated blue. Also on the list today was black and white warbler and brown creeper. I identified all by sound before making a visual except the brown creeper. Coopers rock is a good warbler spot and I plan more attempts at seeing a variety of warblers especially the curilean warbler.