A mostly cloudy but warm day with temps reaching the 70 to 75 range by early afternoon. Around 6:45 p.m., it started raining pretty hard. The mod-hvy rain lasted for at least 30 minutes. Then it was light rain for the rest of the evening. The rain continued into the night and the next morning. Birdwatching was good. After the rain slackened in the evening, I went back on the boardwalk and saw two Mourning Warblers up in the trees and/or bushes. The boardwalk was crowded with birders earlier in the day.
The BSBO banding station at Navarre Marsh banded 566 birds.
My observations for May 10:
Myrtle (mostly females) xi
Magnolia xi
Blackburnian xi
Northern Waterthrush x
Tennessee x
Yellow x
Common Yellowthroat xi
Blackpoll x
Northern Parula x
Chestnut-sided xi
Nashville x
Black-throated Green x
Black-and-white x
Black-throated Blue x
Palm x
Bay-breasted xi
Hooded (male and female near each other) x
Mourning x
Ovenbird x
Cape May x
Wilson's x
Canada x
Sandhill Cranes (several heard calling) x
Brown Thrasher x
Eastern Kingbird x
Great-crested Flycatcher x
Least Flycatcher x
Willow Flycatcher x (heard near the BSBO building)
Whip-poor-will x
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (a bit late) x
Black-billed Cuckoo x
Cedar Waxwing xi
Scarlet Tanager x
Rose-breasted Grosbeak x
Ruby-crowned Kinglet x
Wood Thrush x
Swainson's Thrush xi
Veery x
Gray-cheeked Thrush x
Gray Catbird xi
Baltimore Oriole xi
White-crowned Sparrow xi
White-throated Sparrow xx
Song Sparrow (locals)
Lincoln's Sparrow x
Swamp Sparrow x
Warbling Vireo x
Blue-headed Vireo x
Philadelphia Vireo x
Red-eyed Vireo x
Vehicle parked in lot had Alaska license plates. The couple were inside the car. Someone walked up and asked if they were really from Alaska. They were.
Another birder saw the Yellow-throated Vireo by the Magee Marsh nature center.
TNA report:
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Warblers seen on the boardwalk today ( May 10th, 2006.)
1. Cape May
2. Blue-winged
3. Blackpoll
4. Canada
5. Hooded
6. Prothonotary
7. Magnolia
8. Chestnut-sided
9. A. Redstart
10. N. Waterthrush
11. Ovenbird
12. N. Parula
13. Nashville
14. Tenn.
15. B.t. Green
16. B.t. Blue
17. Palm
18. Black & white
19. Bay-breasted
20. Blackburnian
21. C. Yellowthroat
22. Yellow-rumped
23. Yellow
24. Wilson's
25. MOURNING
Other species seen on boardwalk today.
1. Phila., R.E., B.H., & Warbling Vireo
2. G.C. & Least Flycatchers
3. B.b. & Y.b. Cuckoo's
4. Veery, Swainson's, & Gray-cheeked Thrush
5. Baltimore Oriole, R.b. Grosbeak, Scarlet Tanager
6. Indigo Buntings
7. C. Nighthawk & Whip-poor-will - 1 each
8. Swamp, W.t., W.c., Song, & Lincoln's Sparrows
9. A. Woodcock -1
10. Y.b. Sapsucker & N. Flicker
11. B.W. Teal, P.b. Grebe, & Wood Duck
12. Cedar Waxwing -1 bird
Also today:
Olive-sided Flycatcher
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Once again, my count symbols:
x = 1-9
xi = 10-49
xx = 50-99
xxx = 100+
Some pics from May 10:
Good crowd of birders on hand.
Standing a little east of the west entrance and looking east.
Looking west down the parking lot
The hot corner on the outside edge.
Robin nest near boardwalk by the tower at the boardwalk's west entrance. Nest is only about five feet off the ground and provides great views to birders and photographers.
