[CT Birds] Challenges

[Clay Taylor]

On the warbler front -

Back in about 1978 or 79, at Pt. Pelee National Park in Ontario, a bunch of
birders were standing on the east beach about 1/4 mile north of the tip.
There was a tree (I don't remember the species) that was growing right at
the edge of the beach, and it had multiple trunks that sort of fanned out -
it was no more than 20 - 25 feet high.    there were no other trees within
about 50 or 60 feet, so the "clump" became a jump-into, jump-out-of spot for
the warblers.     The variety was wonderful - Cerulean, Blackburnian, Cape
May, BTB and BTG, dozens of Northern Parulas, Wilson's, the Southerners
(Nashville and Tennessee, of course), and after a while there were over a
hundred birders standing in a semicircle on the beach watching this one
tree.

At some point, I called out that we should count the warbler species in the
tree at any one time.    Within a minute or so, we tallied 21 species of
warblers, in addition to vireos, tanagers, R-b Grosbeaks, Indigo buntings,
sparrows, etc.    Somewhere I have a slide of all the birders standing on
the beach that morning.    A very cool day.

Clay Taylor
Moodus, CT
ctaylor at att.net



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> Oh so many great sightings being reported - Please keep them coming! a
> great cure for early cabin fever...
>
> Just one more memorable sighting: On May 21st, 1979,
>
> While viewing the largest warbler wave I ever had in my back yard, So
> many warblers were about, I didn't know where to focus first, they were
> everywhere!
> On one of the focuses - I spotted a very close, beautiful male
> Blackburnian Warbler. As I began to focus outward, there was another
> male, then farther, another - all in all, I had 6 male Blackburnian
> warblers Stacked one in back of the other, all in my view at the same
> time!
>
> Paul Carrier
>
>
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