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Today my wife Linda, good friends Darlene Sillick and Leslie Sours, and I
enjoyed a day of birding at Blackhand Gorge State Nature Preserve in
Licking County. Many of the birds were cooperative and provided us with great
views but then there are those stinkers that sing so close you can feel their
breath but you cant sort them out of the foliage. After a while you just
write these things off as part of the pastime of birding.
Highlights were many throughout the day and choosing the best is
impossible. We had multiple Cerulean Warblers sing as low as eye level with no
obstructions to our view. Yellow-breasted Chats doing a sing off and flying
across our path in the sunlight. One was especially bright, an orange that
seemed to glow in the sunlight. Prairie Warblers perched on the end of a branch
and serenading us. A male Cape May Warbler that sat and preened long
enough to study every field mark. A male Ruby-throated Hummingbird doing its U
flight mating display. And a switch that delights an old birder when a small
opening in secondary growth produced a Blue-winged and a Golden-winged
Warbler together and apparently interacting. The list today could go on and on
as the birds decided it was a perfect day to act the way birders wish they
would.
Charlie, for Linda, Darlene, Leslie and myself
Our list:
Great Blue Heron
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
Mallard
Red-shouldered Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo (heard)
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Acadian Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
White-eyed Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Barn Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Wood Thrush (heard)
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
Blue-winged Warbler
Golden-winged Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Black-and-White Warbler
Ovenbird (heard)
Louisiana Waterthrush
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler (heard)
Yellow-breasted Chat
Summer Tanager (heard)
Scarlet Tanager (heard)
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak (heard)
Indigo Bunting
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Baltimore Oriole
American Goldfinch
*** Non-eligible species: Peacock [Linda wanted him to get some credit
because he was so pretty][Resident of preserve neighbor's property]
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