I pulled into Jaite Wayside on Wednesday morning with my passenger window 
open. There were four palm warblers in the bushes right outside my window. 
(My camera was packed in a bag.)

I walked north along the railroad tracks and saw more palm warblers and 
some yellow-rumped warblers. I also saw five pileated woodpeckers in the 
marsh just north of the main/paved Jaite parking lot. I have never seen 
five of these big beautiful woodpeckers together like this. Could this 
have been a family group? They were chasing each other and pecking at dead 
trees. Three chimney swifts chased one of the woodpeckers away. (I have 
seen chimney swifts chase a Cooper's hawk at Wetmore trailhead parking lot 
a few weeks ago. Who knew they were so aggressive?)

After about an hour I circled back to the yellow buildings near Snowville 
Road. I saw more palm and yellow-rumped warblers. I also saw some rusty 
blackbirds with some red-winged blackbirds. The rusties were about the 
size of the red-wings; but, they had a distinct eye ring and the colors of 
a grackle (without that long grackle tail).

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