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A slow day on the bluffs
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: A slow day on the bluffs
- From: steven.shultz@unifi.com
- Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 17:13:34 -0400
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
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Cold fronts are welcomed by fall migrant chasers. The same weather system
in the spring is not always so welcome. Such was the case today at the
various spots I visited hoping to fill that yearning need to see some
migrants. Maybe it was the weather, and maybe it wasn't, but the woods
were mighty quiet. I really had to search to find something other than a
cedar waxwing or a butterbutt. I gave about 2.5 hours to the cause but
only came up with the following:
Wood Thrush
American Redstart
Northern Parula
Red-eyed Vireo
Great Crested Flycatcher
BG Gnatcatcher
RT Hummingbird
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Heard only adds:
LA Waterthrush
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Speaking of yellow-rumps (and there were many), I finally gave up looking
for the flashier warblers and starting looking at the YR's (I know, it's a
desperate act). I noted one male that had a yellow wash on the throat.
This is the same patch of bird that is bright yellow in alternate plumage
on the Audubon's subspecies. I wonder how common it is for Myrtle's to
have a yellow hue to this area?
To add insult to injury I headed over to a patch of field I've been
watching as potential Bobolink habitat. Nice and weedy. But...they mowed
it today.
We'll see how tomorrow goes!
Steve Shultz
Apex, NC