Just returned from Utah and Nevada (yes, I climbed the mountain and saw the
bird - Himalayan snowcock, that is!), and decided to try to up-grade some of
the birds in one of my Atlas blocks (59C6CE, Utica 2) this morning.



Feeding fledged young were:

House wren

Song sparrow

White-breasted nuthatch

Yellow warbler

Scarlet tanager

Rose-breasted grosbeak

Baltimore oriole

Blue jay

Robin

Cardinal



Carrying food were:

Downy woodpecker

Gray catbird

Cedar waxwing

Tufted titmouse



Visiting an obscured location repeatedly were:

Male and female ruby-throated hummingbird



Copulating:

Chipping sparrow



Other observations:

Hairy woodpecker - a first for this block, I think

Hooded warbler

Acadian flycatcher

Great-crested flycatcher

Yellow-billed cuckoo

Wood thrush

Common yellowthroat

Eastern towhee

White-eyed vireo

Northern flicker

Killdeer

Eastern phoebe



In a muddy cornfield, or what's left of it after the recent monsoons:



The first PEEPS of the year.  Boy, I'm going to have to bone up on these
guys - I'm not sure what I was seeing.  Of the three seen, one had black
legs, one looked like it might have been a semipalmated sandpiper, but I
couldn't prove it.  Didn't have my scope, and would have missed these three
birds had I not been looking so carefully at the killdeer to determine if
they had any downy young among them.



Good birding, all!  (It's not too late to work on Atlasing!)



Margaret Bowman

Licking Co., OH




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