5/26 sightings

Hilights:Mourning Warblers , Philadelphia Vireo,Yellow-billed Cuckoo,Yellow-breasted Chat

From Rafael Campos : Mourning Warbler by wooden View platform north end of Lily Pond. Not vocalizing. On ground.

from Roberto Cavalieros:

8:45-9:15: Mourning warbler by the wooden viewing platform at the
Northwest end of the Lily Pond; this is very close to the Audubon nature
center. It was not vocalizing and was foraging along the ground.
Philadelphia vireo seen & heard singing loudly high up on a tree
(tulip?) along Center drive between Nethermead and Quaker Hill.

Roberto Cavalieros, MD

 

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From Tom Stephenson:

Ed (Crowne) found a Mourning Warbler at Maryland Monument and I got a couple of looks

I found a Yellow-billed Cuckoo vale end of Nellie's

 

A couple of redstarts, a couple of blackpoll, yellowthroats, Hummingbird, orioles...pewees...warb vireos..red-eyed vireos....kingbirds...robins.....that's about it!

 

Amazing how so many birds that were there yesterday were totally gone today!

 

Listowner Note: This morning's Mournings are the 2nd and third individuals seen so far in Prospect this spring.Maryland Monumnet is at Lookout Hill's southeast base. See "maps" on sidebar <-----------

 

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From Elyse Taylor:

 

 

Hi Peter

Went into Vale at 9:11am . Walking down the stairs I saw a Yellow-breasted Chat

sitting on a rock! I had to leave 10 minutes later. Saw nothing else.

Pretty good for 10 minutes of birding!

Elyse 

 

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From John Ascher:

 

Birding was SLOW today:

site = Prospect Park
date = 5/26/08
observers = John Ascher, Chaoyan Dong
Double-crested Cormorant
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Mallard
Red-tailed Hawk
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Chaoyan only)
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Eastern Kingbird
Warbling Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Barn Swallow
Tufted Titmouse
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Veery
Swainson's Thrush
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Northern Parula
Magnolia Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler (male Lookout Hill Propect Park SW side)
Blackpoll Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird
Common Yellowthroat
Scarlet Tanager
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Baltimore Oriole
House Sparrow

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John S. Ascher, Ph.D.