Scene: A saloon in Deadeye, North Dakota.
Cowboy 1 (Slamming beer down on bar)to Cowboy 2: Why you Worm-eating Warbler!
Cowboy 2: Smile when you say that.
(Gunfight ensues)
reported there.
We didn't find it in the Vale of Cashmere, but there were lots of other birds including our FOY Baltimore Oriole and Northern Parula. A new site in the park is a compost/mulch pile north of the zoo. Compost attracts bugs. Bugs attract warblers. We walked over there and the place was jumping with warblers, including a brilliant Prothonotary Warbler, which was fairly tame, allowing very close, "naked eye" looks. Not a lifer, but almost as good.
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| Photo: Shari Zirlin |
Mallard 4
Red-tailed Hawk 2
Rock Pigeon 3
Mourning Dove 4
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 2
Blue Jay 1
Black-capped Chickadee 1
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
American Robin 50
Gray Catbird 2
European Starling 25
Northern Parula 2
Yellow Warbler 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler 3
Yellow-rumped Warbler 5
Palm Warbler 6
Black-and-white Warbler 2
Prothonotary Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 2
Eastern Towhee 1
Swamp Sparrow 1
White-throated Sparrow 15
Northern Cardinal 2
Red-winged Blackbird 5
Baltimore Oriole 1
American Goldfinch 1
House Sparrow 25
Enjoyed this same bird in this new warbler paradise around 10:30 today. Two birders were intently looking at something in the distance, so on the excellent theory that they had something interesting in focus, I headed toward them, and practically walked into the pro' in a beech tree. Later I had a worm-eating cross the Ravine path in front of me just up from the Nethermead Arches; the bird posed on the fencing. Those guys are in there.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photo! Both hooded mergansers and wood ducks in the swamp this morning.
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