Some weekday birding

Eastern Towhee, Quabbin Park, MA, Sep 5, 2014

American Redstart, Quabbin Park, MA, Sep 5, 2014

Yellow throated Vireo, Quabbin Park, MA, Sep 5, 2014

Eastern Wood Pewee, Quabbin Park, MA, Sep 5, 2014

Chestnut sided Warbler, Quabbin Park, MA, Sep 5, 2014

Philadelphia Vireo, Lake Wallace, Belchertown, MA, Sep 5, 2014

White tailed Deer, Quabbin Park, MA, Sep 5, 2014

Winsor Dam, Quabbin Park, MA, Sep 5, 2014

I stayed close to home this morning with a predawn visit to Lake Wallace and then a few hours over at Quabbin Park.  I managed to find another new species (#223) for the year for Hampshire County when I found a rather bright Philadelphia Vireo in a mixed species flock at Lake Wallace.  I actually managed to find five species of vireo today which is nice with a few of them still singing.  Lots of other good stuff with pockets of birds here and there.  I have included the lists from both Lake Wallace and Quabbin Park.

Quabbin Park, Hampshire

Wood Duck  6
Common Merganser  9
Wild Turkey  4
Common Loon  1
Sharp-shinned Hawk  1
Mourning Dove  3
Chimney Swift  1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  4
Belted Kingfisher  2
Downy Woodpecker  5
Hairy Woodpecker  1
Pileated Woodpecker  1
Eastern Wood-Pewee  7     A few calling
Eastern Phoebe  3
Yellow-throated Vireo  4     Still calling, one rt 9 marsh, one winsor memorial and two below tower
Blue-headed Vireo  1
Red-eyed Vireo  22
Blue Jay  21
American Crow  14
Common Raven  1
Black-capped Chickadee  28
Tufted Titmouse  4
Red-breasted Nuthatch  3
White-breasted Nuthatch  10
House Wren  1
Carolina Wren  2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  1
Veery  1
American Robin  3
Gray Catbird  19
Brown Thrasher  1
Cedar Waxwing  21
Ovenbird  3
Black-and-white Warbler  2
Common Yellowthroat  6
American Redstart  10
Magnolia Warbler  2
Chestnut-sided Warbler  6     Minimum
Pine Warbler  11
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  1
Black-throated Green Warbler  1
Eastern Towhee  21     minimum
Chipping Sparrow  6
Song Sparrow  1
Scarlet Tanager  3     Minimum
Northern Cardinal  4
Baltimore Oriole  2
American Goldfinch  3


Lake Wallace

Canada Goose  2
Wood Duck  22
Mallard  19
Great Blue Heron  1
Green Heron  4
Mourning Dove  1
Belted Kingfisher  2
Downy Woodpecker  2
Hairy Woodpecker  1
Pileated Woodpecker  1
Eastern Wood-Pewee  2
Alder/Willow Flycatcher (Traill's Flycatcher)  1
Eastern Phoebe  3
Warbling Vireo  1
Philadelphia Vireo  1
Red-eyed Vireo  4
Blue Jay  2
American Crow  3
Black-capped Chickadee  9
Tufted Titmouse  2
White-breasted Nuthatch  2
Brown Creeper  1
House Wren  1
Carolina Wren  1
American Robin  1
Gray Catbird  3
Cedar Waxwing  6
Yellow Warbler  3
Pine Warbler  12
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  2
Black-throated Green Warbler  1
Chipping Sparrow  6
Song Sparrow  1
Northern Cardinal  1
American Goldfinch  3

Killdeer, East Meadows, Northampton, MA, Sep 3, 2014

Killdeer, East Meadows, Northampton, MA, Sep 3, 2014

Swallows over meadows, East Meadows, Northampton, MA, Sep 3, 2014

East Meadows at dawn, Northampton, MA, Sep 3, 2014

The previous two mornings I have made brief stops in the East Meadows looking for shorebirds and despite what seemed like decent conditions I only managed to find Killdeer with 31 in a single field on Wednesday and 14 in the same field yesterday.  There was also a decent swallow show (especially on Wednesday) with several hundred swallows present with most being Tree Swallows but with good numbers of Barn and Bank Swallows.  Hopefully some shorebirds show up in the fields soon.