Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Warblers at Bennington Lake

It was a pretty good morning for migrating warblers this morning.  We saw or heard 3 yellow-rumped warblers, 5 orange-crowned warblers, 2 Wilson's warblers and 2 Nashville warblers.  Other interesting sightings were 2 Hammond's flycatchers, 4 red-breasted nuthatches, 7 American pipits, 2 Savannah sparrows, 2 Lincoln's sparrows, one each great horned owl, greater yellowlegs, sharp-shinned hawk and Cooper's hawk.  The Wilson's plover is gone, but it brought birders from all over the Pacific Northwest to see it.  We had a total of 47 species today.  Ginger

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