Sunday, 12 May 2013

[Maine-birds] Viles Arboretum - 19 warblers 6 sparrows

Just an amazing morning at the Viles Arboretum.  My new personal one-day warbler record at the arboretum.

Highlights include a single male Cape May and a single singing male Bay-breasted in conifers by the DEP visitor lot.  At one point I had both birds in my bino field of view. In the same area were at least 4, perhaps 6 male Wilson's Warblers.  Elsewhere up by the cistern was a mega-pile of warblers dominated by BT Green and parula but also including a single female Prairie and 4 Blackpoll males.  At the red bridge (outlet of Viles Pond) was also a good pocket of warblers including a N. Waterthrush.

Sparrows were also in abundance including a single Lincoln's near the cistern and several Swamps.

A Scarlet Tanager was pit-burring near the vernal pool.  And to pad my list I had to hike back to the pine grove to get my Pine Warbler - that was actually one of the hardest ones to find this morning.

Warblers
N Parula
Chestnut-sided
CAPE MAY (1 m)
Magnolia
Yellow-rumped
Black-and-White
Black-throated Blue (4-5)
Blackburnian (1 m singing)
Black-throated Green
PRAIRIE (1 F)
BAY-BREASTED (1 M singing)
Blackpoll (4m singing)
Pine
Yellow
Wilson's (4 m)
N Waterthrush (1)
Ovenbird
Common Yellowthroat
American Redstart

Sparrows:
Savannah
Swamp
Song
Lincoln's
Chipping
White-throated

Northern Oriole
Scarlet Tanager

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