I returned on Saturday with some youth birders to see if we could again find
the Kentucky Warbler along the Fishing Trail at Tuckahoe. We had no luck on
the male but there was a possible (probable? hopeful?) sighting of the
female. After leaving the trail to return to the car, we saw a Northern
Harrier flying across a cornfield, not hunting, just flying across about 100
feet up.
By the pond by the lake at Tuckahoe, we found White Eyed Vireo, Blue Gray
Gnatcatcher, and juvenile Wood Ducks on the pond.
While traveling around Ruthsburg, we heard a Pheasant and saw a Kestrel on
the wires.
Nine Cattle Egrets have returned to the field across the entrance road to
the dump site outside of Centreville.
While weeding strawberries, the hollering of Blue Jays broke thru my weeding
reverie. I paid it no mind but then after a minute or so they started to
get closer. I looked up in time to see a Red-shouldered Hawk flying by with
an infant bird in its talons. It was hotly pursued by 3 or 4 Blue Jays and
about a dozen Grackles joining in.
Jim Wilson
Queenstown |