The late migrants are moving through – Blackpoll Warblers, cuckoos and a variety of flycatchers were noticeable today and we were able to tap into them.
Banded 45:
Black-billed Cuckoo. -KMP
1 Black-billed Cuckoo
1 Downy Woodpecker
2 Eastern Wood Pewees
For comparison: Eastern Wood Pewee (left) and Traill’s Flycatcher/ -KMP
2 Traill’s Flycatchers
Again, for comparison: Eastern Wood Pewee (left) and Traill’s Flycatcher (right). -KMP
1 Eastern Kingbird
Although fiercely territorial up here, Eastern Kingbirds move in flocks in their wintering ground in Central America. -KMP
2 Tree Swallows
1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
5 Gray Catbirds
1 Red-eyed Vireo
Male Tennessee Warbler – one of five banded today. -WJA
5 Tennessee Warblers
4 Yellow Warblers
Female Magnolia Warbler. -WJA
3 Magnolia Warblers
One of four male Blackpoll Warblers banded today. -KMP
4 Blackpoll Warblers
2 American Redstarts
1 Common Yellowthroat
Stunning ASY male Indigo Bunting. -WJA
1 Indigo Bunting
1 Lincoln’s Sparrow
2 Common Grackles
2 Baltimore Orioles
1 Orchard Oriole
3 American Goldfinches
ET’s: 59 spp.
Photos:
Tick on a Lincoln’s Sparrow. -WJA
Karen removing the tick which will go to John Scott at the University of Guelph for examination. -WJA
Great Crested Flycatcher. A retrap, this bird was banded in 2017. -WJA
Close-up view of a Black-billed Cuckoo. -KMP
The cryptic eggs of a Killdeer. -KMP
Traill’s Flycatcher (probably a Willow Flycatcher). -KMP
This large Milk Snake can often be found around the front of the Mansion. We think it might spend the Winter under the stairs. -RY
Milk Snake. -CR
Rick