I took a beautiful stroll along Harbor Island's Linear Trail this morning recording 45 bird species between 6:00 and 9:30 and fortunately not stepping on Bambi in a thicket along the edge of the marsh. It was quite cool until the final half hour which may have kept the warbler numbers down?
Highlights included a mama Killdeer screaming at her baby for running across the road, a Red-winged Blackbird aggressively displaying around and waving its epaulets at a European Starling (why?), great views of Philadelphia Vireo, Black-throated Blue Warbler, Scarlet Tanager and Blackpoll Warbler, and discovering that I can still hear a Blackpoll if it's close enough!
Mama Peregrine Falcon was up at her box whenever I looked at the smokestack.
- Ric
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