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20 species of warbler incl. 4+ Golden-wings on the Savannah River



Hi Folks,

Well? The Savannah River area is just busting with birds. Chris Mooreman ended up with 17 warbler species for the day yesterday, including a GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER, in the swamps of the SRS. This morning I went with Chris to look for that bird and we ended up with 4 more! In the 24 hours since yesterday morning, the bottomland gaps of the SRS (forest gaps from 40 to 80 meters diameter and 6 or so years old) produced 20+ species of warbler. Chris had Blue-winged yesterday, and there may be something else I?m missing that he had, but here are the highlights from today:

Golden-winged Warbler - 4
Black and White ? 8
Black-throated Green ? 1
Blackpoll ? 3
Bay Breasted ? 5
Chestnut-sided ? all over
Magnolia ? 15
Redstart ? all over
Northern Parula ? all over
Pine ? 5
Yellow Throated ? 2
Black-throated Blue ? few
Ovenbird ? 5
Northern Waterthrush ? 4
Common Yellowthroat ? few (moved out over night. The banding operation had tons yesterday and one or two today, and Chris tells me they were everywhere yesterday)
Tennessee ? 12++
Blackburnian ? 3
Hooded ? 8
Yellow-breasted Chat ? 1
(We both got on an interesting warbler with a rich yellow throat with the yellow extending down to the upper belly (belly and undertail coverts were white) and narrow flank-streaks. The yellow throat had a slight hint of orange, but it wasn't a Blackburnian. Why not? Well it cocked it's head and I said "prairie", as it had yellow orbital crescents... but it wasn't a prairie. It was easily 100 feet up, but in good light. Neither of us could figure it out, and it vanished instead of dropping down. Soon after a Yellow-throated showed up in the same tree, but it wasn't the right yellow, and it didn't come down far enough on the belly. The face was wrong, and the flank streaking was bolder).


Also, thrushes were just about everywhere.
Wood ? 6
Swainson?s ? 6+
Gray-cheeked ? 20++ (easily. There was one flock of 7 or 8)

Scarlet Tanager ? 10
Summer Tanager ? 5
Acadian Flycatcher ? 4

If you?re in the region and have time to bird, I would suggest places like Gum Swamp Road, Silver Bluff Audubon or the Jackson boat landing area on the SC side of the river (Jackson & Beech Island, SC) or Lovers Lane/Phinizy Swamp (back side might be worth the walk) and Yuchie WMA on the GA side of the river (several good river landings at Yuchie, just down stream from Plant Vogal).

Cheers
Paul Champlin
New Ellenton, SC

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