Hi all, Had a great morning along the Canal Trail from Cornland Rd. down to
Douglas. Astonishingly (for me anyway), there were multiple Cape May and
Bay-breasted Warblers in song. What?? I no sooner got out of my pickup than
I was being serenaded. Seriously. Unfortunately I didn't get great looks, or
any looks for that matter, at many of the birds, but I enjoy birding by
sound all the same. (And in the early a.m. the sounds are especially loud.)
It's the next best thing. Good birding, Dave Gibson, Chesapeake
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Subject: eBird Report - Great Dismal Swamp NWR--Canal Trail, May 5, 2015
Great Dismal Swamp NWR--Canal Trail, Chesapeake, US-VA
May 5, 2015 6:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Protocol: Traveling
3.0 mile(s)
17 species
Green Heron 1
Red-headed Woodpecker 1
Acadian Flycatcher 6
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 3
Louisiana Waterthrush 2
Black-and-white Warbler 2
Swainson's Warbler 1 On Douglas Rd
Hooded Warbler 1
Cape May Warbler 2 Heard only at the corner of the Canal Trail & Cornland. There may have been more. High pitched, one pitch song. Note repeated 4 or 5 times.
Northern Parula 3
Bay-breasted Warbler 2 Heard only at the corner of the Canal Trail & Cornland and along the Trail as I headed south. There may have been more. song was shorter and fainter than a Black & White's (they were singing too).
Yellow-throated Warbler 2
Prairie Warbler 2
Yellow-breasted Chat 1 At the corner of the Trail and Douglas Rd. (ah Douglas!).
Scarlet Tanager 1
Northern Cardinal 2 Nest was at the corner of Cornland and the Trail.
Orchard Oriole 1
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