AtBlendon Woods Metro Park (Franklin County) activity was slow during the earlymorning but about 11:00 AM things went crazy. Maybe the sequester of the airtraffic controllers held the birds up. Suddenly there were warblers everywhereon the Overlook Trail and Brookside Trail. The best sighting was a Worm-eatingWarbler that fed around us then perched on the end of a branch directly overthe trail right in front of us. Several other warblers tried to copy theWorm-eating Warbler, including Cerulean, Blackpoll, Blackburnian andBlack-throated Green, but all they all came up short. Some other good birdsincluded Blue-headed Vireo, Summer Tanager, Acadian Flycatcher and a pair of RuddyDucks at Thoreau Lake.
 
 
In theearly afternoon we checked on activity at Area M/N of the Hoover NaturePreserve in Galena (Delaware County). There was a Caspian Tern with theRing-billed Gulls on the boardwalk and the Tree Swallows and ProthonotaryWarblers are staking their claims to the new nest boxes I installed along theboardwalk. The old road in Area N produced numerous Prothonotary Warblers plusPalm, Yellow, Yellow-throated, Northern Parula and lots of Yellow-rumpedwarblers. Other birds there Blue-winged Teal, Red-headed Woodpecker, GreatCrested Flycatcher and an Osprey.
 
 
SPECIESLIST Key: BW=Blendon Woods, HNP=Hoover Nature Preserve
Double-crested Cormorant  (HNP)
Great Blue Heron                 (BW& HNP)
Turkey Vulture                      (BW& HNP)
Canada Goose                     (BW & HNP)
Wood Duck                           (BW& HNP)
Mallard                                   (BW& HNP)
Blue-winged Teal                (HNP)
Ruddy Duck                          (BW)
Osprey                                   (HNP)
Cooper's Hawk                     (BW)
Red-tailed Hawk                  (BW& HNP)
Wild Turkey                           (BW)
American Coot                     (HNP)
Ring-billed Gull                    (HNP)
Caspian Tern                        (HNP)
Rock Pigeon                         (BW)
Mourning Dove                    (BW & HNP)
Chimney Swift                      (BW & HNP)
Belted Kingfisher                 (HNP)
Red-headed Woodpecker  (HNP)
Red-bellied Woodpecker    (BW & HNP)
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  (BW)
Downy Woodpecker                        (BW & HNP)
Northern Flicker                   (BW& HNP)
Pileated Woodpecker          (BW)
Acadian Flycatcher             (BW)
Eastern Phoebe                   (BW& HNP)
Great Crested Flycatcher    (BW & HNP)
Blue-headed Vireo              (BW)
Warbling Vireo                     (BW& HNP)
Red-eyed Vireo                    (BW)
Blue Jay                                (BW& HNP)
American Crow                    (BW & HNP)
Tree Swallow                        (BW& HNP)
Northern Rough-winged Swallow                        (BW & HNP)
Cliff Swallow                                    (HNP)
Barn Swallow                       (BW &HNP)
Carolina Chickadee                        (BW & HNP)
Tufted Titmouse                   (BW& HNP)
White-breasted Nuthatch   (BW & HNP)
Carolina Wren                      (BW & HNP)
House Wren                         (BW& HNP)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet        (BW & HNP)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher        (BW & HNP)
Eastern Bluebird                  (BW)
Wood Thrush                        (BW)
American Robin                   (BW& HNP)
Gray Catbird                          (BW)
Brown Thrasher                   (BW)
European Starling               (BW& HNP)
Nashville Warbler                (BW)
Northern Parula                   (HNP)
Yellow Warbler                     (BW& HNP)
Yellow-rumped Warbler      (BW & HNP)
Black-throated Green Warbler       (BW)
Blackburnian Warbler         (BW)
Yellow-throated Warbler     (BW & HNP)
Palm Warbler                        (BW& HNP)
Blackpoll Warbler                 (BW)
Cerulean Warbler                (BW)
Black-and-White Warbler   (BW)
Prothonotary Warbler          (HNP)
Worm-eating Warbler          (BW)
Hooded Warbler                   (BW)
Summer Tanager                 (BW)
Eastern Towhee                   (BW)
Chipping Sparrow               (BW)
Field Sparrow                       (BW)
Savannah Sparrow             (BW)
Song Sparrow                      (BW & HNP)
Swamp Sparrow                   (BW)
White-throated Sparrow      (BW)
Northern Cardinal                (BW& HNP)
Indigo Bunting                     (BW)
Red-winged Blackbird        (BW & HNP)
Common Grackle                 (BW & HNP)
Brown-headed Cowbird     (BW & HNP)
House Finch                         (BW)
American Goldfinch                        (BW & HNP)
House Sparrow                    (BW)
 
 
Charlie Bombaci
Hoover Nature Preserve

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