This is the second Monday morning in a row I've birded Phelps Wildlife
Management Reserve. Good numbers of birds both weeks They aren't starting to
move
till 8:00am or so-as the sun gets high enough to hit on the trees. I heard my
1st screech owl for there last week. Had nice long looks at a mourning
warbler there today. I seen them there before in the fall. A partial list
follows
with numbers for both weeks: American Redstart 6,2 Magnolia Warbler 12,8
Blackburnian 5,2 Pine warbler 6,35(large flocks today with lots of singing)
Chestnut Sided 8,8 Black and White4,6 Tennessee 2,0 Nashville 4,1 Black
throated
green 14,9 Black throated Blue 2,0 Parula 2,8 Prairie 2,2 Mourning 0,1
Yellowthroat 8,5 Red eyed Viroe(lots) White eyed Vireo(tons) Blue headed
Vireo2,1
Yellow throated Vireo 0,1 Philadelphia Vireo 1,0 Indigo Buntings 6,50+ Scarlet
Tanagers(tons) Screech owl 0,1 Broad wing hawk 2,3 Sharpie 1,0 Barred owl
1/1 Yellow billed Cuckoo 5,14 a few field sparrows Eastern Phoebe lots,
Flycatcher sp 4,2 and more. The catchment ponds are dry and no waterfowl at
all.
Dave White Zoin Crossroads
