Awesome birding at West Creek this morning &
afternoon.  I left work mid-day after recieving a call
from Jen Brumfield that there was a PRAIRIE WARBLER
singing near the parking lot.  The bird wasn't singing
when I arrived, but I managed to refind it briefly in
that same general area (east of the parking lot).
Soon thereafter, I found a SEDGE WREN at the far
southern end of the landfill just east of the paved
road.  This bird was truly a skulker - at first it was
sitting up chipping, but dropped to the grass, and
would literally flush underfoot, 12 inches in front of
me.  The day's final rarity was a YELLOW-THROATED
WARBLER, just inside the woods north of the gravel
east-west road that crosses the landfill.  It offered
fufilling looks, foraging a bit lower than the rest of
the "canopy" warblers.  All told, 17 warbler species
were seen.  I didn't even make it to the ridge trail,
but I was told by another birder that warblers were
"streaming through the canopy" here as well.

Warblers:
Tennessee  X
Nashville  3
N Parula  2  m & f
Yellow  10
Chestnut-sided  1
Magnolia  2
Yellow-rumped  51
Black-throated Green  1
Blackburnian  1
YELLOW-THROATED  1
PRAIRIE  1
Palm  15
Black-and-white  2
A Redstart  1
Ovenbird  1
L Waterthrush  1  apparently on territory
C Yellowthroat  3

Other migrants:
Broad-winged Hawk  2
Solitary Sandpiper  6
Lesser Yellowlegs  1  flyby
Great Crested Flycatcher  1
E Kingbird  1
Blue-headed Vireo  1
SEDGE WREN  1
Marsh Wren  1  south of landfill
Northern Mockingbird  1
Savannah Sparrow  5
Indigo Bunting  2

Good birding -
Gabe Leidy
Cleveland


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