I went out to Block 59C6SE, again today, after first service at church.  I
birded about 3 hours, and netted 53 species, including 9 warblers, most on
them on Hillcrest Road.



Great blue heron - at bridge on Snyder Rd.

Turkey vulture

Red-tailed hawk

Wild turkey - the closest I have ever been to one in the wild - just feet
away

Killdeer

Mourning dove

Red-bellied woodpecker

Downy woodpecker

Northern flicker

Pileated woodpecker

Eastern phoebe

Great crested flycatcher

Tree swallow

Barn swallow

House wren

Gray catbird - lots of these, very vocal, made ID by ear problematic!

Brown thrasher

Eastern bluebird

Wood thrush

American robin

Blue-gray gnatcatcher - caught nest-building!

Carolina chickadee

Tufted titmouse

White-breasted nuthatch

Blue jay

American crow

European starling

House sparrow

White-eyed vireo

Yellow-throated vireo

Warbling vireo

Red-eyed vireo

American goldfinch

Yellow warbler

Yellow-rumped warbler

Black-throated green warbler

Palm warbler

Black-and-white warbler

Ovenbird

Louisiana waterthrush

Common yellowthroat

Hooded warbler

Eastern towhee

Chipping sparrow

Field sparrow

Song sparrow

Northern cardinal

Rose-breasted grosbeak - pair

Red-winged blackbird

Eastern meadowlark - on Martinsburg Rd.

Common grackle

Brown-headed cowbird

Baltimore oriole - in someone's yard, near feeders!





The warbler du jour had to be the black-and-white.  I saw more today than I
have ever seen in an entire season, let alone a single day.  Great looks
again at a great crested flycatcher, and at a wonderfully cooperative hooded
warbler, just about five feet from my head.  Thought I heard scarlet
tanager, but couldn't spot it.  Saw doe with fawn again today, and
miscellaneous forest quadrupeds.   What a great day to be alive!



Margaret Bowman

Licking Co., OH


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