Woke up to singing Bay-breasted, Tennessee, Magnolia, Chestnut-sided, Northern Parula, Black-throated Green, Yellow, Yellow-rumped, Black-and-white, and Pine Warblers in our Gardiner neighborhood this morning plus a Least Flycatcher. The only one of these species that breeds there is Pine Warbler so the rest were all migrants. It was interesting to see how they were keying in on the newly flowering and leafing out White Ash trees which, with White Oaks, are usually among the last trees to leaf out in spring. As the day warmed it seemed as if insect activity increased around the flowers and new leaves on the ash trees and I could see an increase in warbler feeding activity and saw some snatch up insects from the clusters. Also interesting to see these tree species leafing out this early as I think of them as formally doing so a week or so later when the Blackpolls are coming through in numbers.
-- Jeff Wells
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