My observations and sightings in nature from both my local area and much further afield. Focus is always on birds but other parts of nature make it on here too.
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
New birds at the end of the day at home
I went out for a little time before work on a very frosty morning with temperatures right at freezing. I started at the rail trail and then briefly over to UMASS. Nothing too unusual but I'm sure after a little warm up it would have gotten more active but I didn't have the time to spend waiting this morning. The cool weather continued throughout the day and the mid to late afternoon brought some rain as a warm front moved in. I also made a brief stop at Winsor Dam on the way home to see if I could find anything brought down by the rain (no luck there). As sunset approached the skies cleared somewhat and the temperatures actually started to climb into the 60's. As I was standing outside on the deck I heard an odd warbler call that sounded like a Prothonotary Warbler down along Jabish Brook. I quickly made my way down there and tried to get a view of the bird but had no luck. I got some video with the call distant in the background but I'm not 100% sure of the identification. It certainly had me wondering and I would have loved to get a look at the bird. It could have been a number of different birds giving an unusual call but who knows. As I tried to locate that bird I did manage to find a Canada Warbler which became species #196. As the mystery warbler stopped calling for the evening I started to have a couple of Virginia Rails call back and forth with various calls. While listening to them I had the bird of the day when a Sora sounded off! The Sora became not only species #197 for the county this year but yard bird #151. Very glad I went out on the deck after dinner! Two new birds for the county this year (and possibly a third) plus a new species for the yard. No photos but I will try to get the video up later.
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