Lots of activity at SVWA this morning, all seen from a 100-foot section of the bike path, near the area where Prothonotary Warblers are usually found:

  Baltimore Orioles at 2 different nests
  Orchard Orioles fledging, at least one still in the nest
  Orchard Orioles mating
  Pewee on nest
  Blue-gray Gnatcatchers on nest and defending it from House Wren
  Red-headed and Red-bellied Woodpeckers at nests
  Cedar Waxwing on nest
  Gnatcatchers feeding not one, but two fledgling Brown-headed Cowbirds
  Green Heron feeding and calling, very close to bike path
  N. Flickers - lots of activity - possible nest, but I didn't see them enter the cavity
  Female Wood Duck with 10+ young
  House Wren tending nest

  Other birds seen, but not so active:
  Belted Kingfishers
  Indigo Bunting
  Prothonotary Warbler, still singing
  Yellow-throated Vireo
  Warbling Vireo
  Common Yellowthroat
  Great-crested Flycatcher
  Great Blue Heron
  Carolina Wren
  All the regulars - Chickadee, Cardinal, etc.

  Heard but not seen:
  Wood Thrush
  Yellow-billed Cuckoo

  I did not see any of the Pileated Woodpeckers today.

  I was also able to find a Bobolink on Engle Mill Road, about a mile south of Spring Valley-Paintersville Road (as reported a few days ago).



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