After a small breakthrough in my nocturnal birding efforts, I was quite interested to try again. It was a bit more challenging this time. The birds were a higher and I only had ~2 hrs of sleep. But it was 110% worth it!
Palm Warbler
Mourning Dove 3
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Black-billed Cuckoo 1
Virginia Rail 1
Wilson's Snipe 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 1
American Bittern 1
Empidonax sp. 2
Red-eyed Vireo 23
vireo sp. 1
Veery 1
Gray-cheeked Thrush 1
Swainson's Thrush 6
Catharus sp. 3
Savannah Sparrow 12
Lincoln's Sparrow 2
new world sparrow sp. 3
Ovenbird 1
Northern Waterthrush 3
Tennessee Warbler 3
Nashville Warbler 10
American Redstart 3
Magnolia Warbler 3
Bay-breasted Warbler 3
Blackburnian Warbler 2
Chestnut-sided Warbler 1
Blackpoll Warbler 7
Bay-breasted/Blackpoll Warbler 12
Palm Warbler 5
Black-throated Green Warbler 3
Wilson's Warbler 1
new world warbler sp. 18
Scarlet Tanager 2
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 3
Indigo Bunting 1
passerine sp. 12
bird sp. 3
Wilson's Warbler
Perhaps it is due to my morning flight "training" - but even at night I can fairly quickly tell if I'm dealing with something standard (i.e., a Baypoll or a Red-eyed Vireo) or something unusual (a more colourful warbler species, or something weird like a Cuckoo). Yet there are still many surprises, some of which wait until home when I can look through the photos (i.e., the Lincoln's Sparrows!).
A host of questions to be answered and many more ideas to test out! Also, some more pics on my ebird list here: https://ebird.org/checklist/S392997719
A host of questions to be answered and many more ideas to test out! Also, some more pics on my ebird list here: https://ebird.org/checklist/S392997719
I've got a host of "opinion" type material in my mind for the olde blog - but the birding has been consistently "good" enough that it has been filling my spare non-family time (and non-work time I guess). More to come!
Virginia Rail
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