Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Back to paradise pond

 

Full migration mode.  A field of indigo buntings; forty at least.  Painted buntings.  Eastern and western kingbirds.  White eyed, warbling, and red eyed vireos.  Swainson’s thrush and brown thrasher.  Northern parula.  Tennessee, hooded, blue winged, and cerulean warblers.  American redstarts.  Summer tanager, scarlet tanager.  Rose breasted grosbeak.  Orchard and Baltimore orioles.  Common Yellowthroat.  And Dickcissels.

 

Three lifers.  #494, dickcissel.  #495, blue winged warbler.  #496, cerulean warbler.

 

In the picture, all those blue dots on the grass are indigo buntings.  There is a painted bunting red dot in the middle, but you can’t see much of him.