[CT Birds] Mansfield, 5/5/08

[Mntncougar at aol.com]

What a difference a day - and a weather front - makes!   Many birds I have 
been seeing gone, and many new 1s for the  year.
 
Mansfield Hollow off Rt 89 (Turnip Meadow):
2 Veerys (FOY)
1 Wood Thrush (FOY)
1 Eastern Towhee
1 Baltimore Oriole (FOY)
2 Warbling Vireos (FOL)
1 Great Blue Heron
1 Little Blue Heron
NO WARBLERS of any kind (I have been seeing Yellow-rumped, Palm  and 
Black-and-white regularly here)
 
Mansfield Hollow Field Trial Area:
MANY Baltimore Orioles (I stopped counting at about 10 but the  trees were 
full of them - even at the parking lot.  I didn't see or hear 1  yesterday)
EVEN MORE Pine Warblers (I walked through an area of piney  woods near the 
lake and they were calling from every tree.  Easily more  than 20 there.)
4 Blue winged Warblers FOY.  I'm sure there were more - I  didn't look very 
hard.
1 Yellow-rump  (No Palm or  Black-and-white)
1 Warbling Vireo
1 male Scarlet Tanager FOY
1 Indigo Bunting FOY
1 Eastern Towhee
1 Brown Thrasher FOY
1 Wood Thrush
1 Veery
NO Blue-gray Gnatcatchers
 
Eagleville Preserve:
3 Black-and-white Warblers
2 Palm Warblers (yes, still there)
6+ Yellow-rumps
1 Louisiana Waterthrush
2 American Redstarts FOY (more heard).
4 Yellow Warblers
1 Flycatcher sp.  appeared to be an Eastern Wood  Pee-wee FOY
 
Don Morgan
Coventry



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