A week ago the skies were dark and I postponed the migratory census with some trepidation. I thought May 15 might be a little late, and that several species might migrate through during the week.
I am glad we had lousy weather last weekend. We had a great morning with a variety of warblers, that I don't think we would have had last weekend. We ended the morning with a total of 51 species and 254 individual birds. The species count is about average.
The most abundant bird that we counted were Wood Thrushes with 16 individuals. Following were Tufted Titmounses at 15, Red-eyed Vireos at 14 and Ovenbirds at 13. We counted 10 different warbler species. Other interesting finds were the abundance of Great-crested Flycatchers and Yellow-throated Vireos.
Tomorrow we head to Bear Creek Preserve, where we should also get a great variety of birds moving through.
