I slept in having stayed up late to look for the N Lights—was thrilled to see them—a life/bucket list experience! Didn’t really see them naked eye but my iPhone camera picked them up easily. Even got some decent 3 sec time exposures. V cool.

With a late start, I skipped Denision which is usually better early & went straight to Morris woods.

I always thought the reserve should be good for Mourning & CT but haven’t seen them before today’s success with one Mourning. I was checking a wet area for the second time before leaving when I heard the distinctive Mourning song. Unfortunately, I only caught a glimpse of it as it flew low into thicker cover. It sang 5 or 6 times then I never heard or saw it again. While I was hoping for it to sing again, I finally got great looks at a male Bay-breasted which I’d heard earlier a few times as it perched fairly low & sang. 

On the drive home, the turkey I’d hoped to see yesterday for birdathon was in the road…a couple of my misses yesterday were Yellow-throated Vireo & Ovenbird, birds I usually get every outing this time of year. I’ll blame it on the wind…

A note on Merlin: I never count birds Merlin hears unless I either see them or feel confident about a song that I’ve heard. Today I heard a song I couldn’t quite place & while I was trying to find the singing warbler, Merlin was telling me it heard a Yellow. I spotted the bird while it was singing & it was clearly a male Chestnut-sided! And I did not see or hear a yellow at that spot. But the song did sound a bit different than the usual CS song. I think Merlin is generally pretty amazing but I always want to confirm!

Warblers
Mourning FOY
Bay-breasted
TN
Chestnut-sided
BT Green
Ovenbird
Am Redstart—finally a female along w/a few males
Yellow
Com YT

Veery—finally singing rather than just calling
Wood Thrush
RE, WE & Yellow-throated Vireos
Red-headed WP
Acadian FC
Great-crested FC
E wood peewee
Red-shouldered Hawk

Peggy Wang
Granville
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