Thanks to the guided tours of some excellent and
generous birders, I'm slowly learning the birding
areas of my new North end neighborhood like Blendon
Woods, Sharon Woods and Hoover.  Since Sharon Woods is
closest I took advantage of an unexpected free time
from 10:30 to about 11:15 this morning to continue
familiarizing myself with a nice little woods walk
that's identified only as a connector trail.  Take the
first right from the park entrance, then turn into the
first parking lot on the right.  The trail beginning
can be seen from the far end of that parking lot.
When I first arrived, "not a creature was stirring,"
but then I heard chickadees and what Tommy Thomson
told me years ago proved true, they were indeed tour
guides for the warblers--not exactly a wave but a
ripple: first a female or immature male redstart, then
a bay-breasted and a yellow rump--both of which flew
down and began foraging on the path with a couple of
titmice!--and then, skulking in the nearby underbrush
just like it's supposed to, a MOURNING WARBLER, a life
lister for me at last!  Other nice birds included the
blue-headed vireo that was hanging out with the
warblers and a couple of scarlet tanagers, one female
and one presumably immature male since it was greenish
yellow with bars on its black wings.  No sign of the
pair of sapsuckers that were frolicking noisily in the
same spot Saturday evening.  Good birding! Pam Unger
P.S.  If you're looking for red-breasted nuthatches,
the Greenlawn Cemetery feeders at Thurber Pond are
still your best spot!



Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead.  It is going on all the time.  We are in it now.  --Charlotte Perkins Gilman


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