Saturday, May 1, 2010
Oh M(a)y!
Walked out this morning, and was greeted by the call notes of a young male Orchard Oriole in the top of a Cottonwood. It quickly moved on, but I knew it was going to be good when that was my first bird! Passerines were not super thick, but the song diversity was music for my ears. Year pickups included: Great Egret, Spotted Sandpiper, and White-crowned Sparrow. Pretty much every other year addition also doubled as life yardbirds: Warbling Vireo, Common Yellowthroat, Green Heron, Bobolink (singing male as it flew over), Eastern Kingbird (also a flyover), Baltimore Oriole, and a lone Lesser Yellowlegs among 33 solitary sands (!!) on the mudflats below the beaver dam. The only other warb aside from the COYE was a singing palm warbler outside my apartment. Can't wait for what the next few weeks have in store! Curtis, your life yardlist is about to fall!
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Where'd you come from!? Sheesh. And I suppose most of the migrants that will be coming in are all going to be new also. Well, let's see what you've got for warblers in this new yard of yours! Right now that's about all I've got to brag about.
ReplyDeleteYeah that's the beauty of it. I've been eking out a solid late fall/winter list and now that spring is actually here, even common neo-trops are all brand new!
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