[CT Birds] Challenges

[Kris Johnson]

Clay, I was just looking for my notes for that day Cause I was there!!!  It 
was May 10, 1998.  Very early in my birding adventures/experiences and what 
a day!!  What a bush!!  Kris Johnson
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Clay Taylor" <ctaylor at att.net>
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Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: [CT Birds] Challenges


> 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
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Carrier Graphics" <carriergraphics at sbcglobal.net>
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> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 10:15 AM
> Subject: [CT Birds] Challenges
>
>
>> 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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