Showing posts with label chestnut sided warbler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chestnut sided warbler. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

May 25 - 31

Tracked a singing chestnut-sided warbler to a neighbour's birch tree one morning.  Also, have heard a couple of times a warbler-like noise, which I am pretty sure is an American redstart - I might even have seen it once or twice, I thought I saw a little black bird with orange bits, not big or orange enough to be the oriole, but it was so quick I ignored it until I was listening to bird songs on the computer and figured I was hearing it, which made it more likely I had seen it as well. 

Common birds: swan (2 days), turkey vulture, red-tailed hawk (2 days, flying), robin (6 days), goldfinch, cardinal (pair 2 days, male +1, female +1), mourning dove (2 days), house sparrow (6 days), starling (6 days), grackle (3 days), red-wing blackbird (male 3 days, female 4 days), chickadee (2 days)

Spring visitors: song sparrow, chestnut-sided warbler, American redstart??

Heard: red-breasted nuthatch, song sparrow, American redstart

Thursday, November 6, 2014

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

May 24

Another new warbler for me!  I wasn't sure at first, but I saw a Wilson's warbler - it's yellow, with a black cap. 

Common birds: starling, house sparrow, grackle, cardinal (pair), robin, goldfinch, downy woodpecker (male, female?), blue jay?, house finch (male)

Spring visitors: brown headed cowbird, blackburnian warbler, chestnut sided warbler, wilson's warbler, baltimore oriole

May 19

Common birds: house sparrow, starling, blue jay, gull, goldfinch, cardinal (male), robin, grackle

Spring visitors: redwing blackbird, brown headed cowbird (male), blackburnian warbler, magnolia warbler, baltimore oriole, solitary vireo?, philadelphia vireo?, black throated blue warbler (female), northern parula warbler, chestnut sided warbler, american redstart (female)

Thursday, August 22, 2013

August 22 / the taste test

I ate the carrot - it was sweet, so I hope the rest will be as nice.  I am also enjoying the cherry tomatoes, and it won't be long before the first of the large tomatoes are ready to pick.

I also think that I have figured out the warbler from Saturday's post - a chestnut-sided warbler in *non-breeding* colours, which are quite different from the breeding colours, and would explain why I didn't recognize it as one. 

Common birds: house sparrow, chickadee