It is a rare morning in that I was able to find time for a walk near my house on the northeastern corner of Pushaw Lake in Hudson. Sunshine and calm conditions gave several summer birds a chance to prove they haven’t left yet. Over the 50 minute amble, I notched a couple of palm warblers, a couple of yellow-rumps, a couple of ruby-crowned kinglets, one northern parula, and one hermit thrush. Also chalked up a couple of brown creepers, a ruffed grouse, and a stealthy sharp-shinned hawk. BC chickadees and GC kinglets were numerous, of course, and I’m still not noticing the departure of any nuthatches this autumn. They were plentiful.
Barred owls have gotten vocal recently, but only in the dead of night.
Bob Duchesne
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