Today was a good day when it's quality. I was able to get one of the Rarities reported today after work and that's fine with me.
First report I heard from the field as I set up for work with volunteers: YELLOW Throated WARBLER ( the southeastern Dominica species) seen at Terrace Bridge. This overshoot gets raves and draws in the crowd.Its a beautiful warbler one I hope to get annually and the bird accomplished my yearly target as I got it in the Pin oak on the south side of Terrace Bridge ( thanks to Zach L.)..Seeing from the bridge helps..
In the same tree, getting a gorgeous Black throated Green Warbler adds " icing" to the cake .
The warbler I didn't pursue was the HOODED WARBLER, a male bird that traveled the hillside below Butterfly Meadow northern fringes this morning.i had to make a choice. You can't get them all
Another quality bird reported on Tom's BBC walk is SUMMER TANAGER .This basically southern bird appeared in the Ravine quite high up .
There was also a reported Wilson's Snipe somewhere in the Lullwater.
A nice birding day just after the Tax Bird date April 15th , my arbitrary date when I know the good stuff starts coming in.
And from Humming-Bird to Eagle, the daily existence of every bird is a remote and bewitching mystery.
~Thomas Wentworth Higginson, "The Life of Birds," Out-door Papers, 1868
