Double Trouble SP 4/16--Black-and-white Warbler

A hint of warbler season. I walked down the little-used Purple Trail at Double Trouble (a dead end that terminates at Cedar Creek) to get out of the wind and because sometimes it is a good place to find little birds in the line of trees along the narrow trail. I was birdless, though, halfway to the creek until I heard a little squeaking wheel "song" of a Black-and-white Warbler.  When I first started birding, I really liked Black-and-white Warblers because they were so easy to identify, and I still like them because their song is one of the few (along with Common Yellowthroat and Hooded Warbler) that I don't have to rememorize each spring. 

With a lot of pishing and a little digital persuasion I was finally able to get eyes on this guy. He was all over the place, flying from one side of the trail to the other and not, like it says in the books, sticking closely to the trunk of the tree, but rather landing haphazardly on branches and in the bushes. 

That was the only "interesting" bird today, everything else there was as you'd expect and not much of it because the aforesaid wind was keeping a lot of birds in their shelters. As I've said often, birds are smarter than we are. 

25 species
Canada Goose  11
Mallard  3
Mourning Dove  1
Laughing Gull  8
Double-crested Cormorant  1
Great Egret  1
Belted Kingfisher  1     Cedar restoration area of all places
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker  2
Blue Jay  1
Carolina Chickadee  2
Tufted Titmouse  1
Tree Swallow  7
Golden-crowned Kinglet  1     Heard Platt
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  1
American Robin  1
American Goldfinch  2
Song Sparrow  3
Swamp Sparrow  1     Heard packing house bog
Eastern Towhee  2
Red-winged Blackbird  3
Black-and-white Warbler  1
Pine Warbler  3
Yellow-rumped Warbler  1
Northern Cardinal  1