Cape May Warbler and late Yellow Warblers

Cape May Warbler, Orchard Hill UMASS Amherst, Sept 21, 2012

Cape May Warbler, Orchard Hill UMASS Amherst, Sept 21, 2012

Cape May Warbler, Orchard Hill UMASS Amherst, Sept 21, 2012

Yellow Warbler, Honeypot-Hadley, Sept 21, 2012

Yet another great day birding in mid September with stops at Orchard Hill and the Honeypot.  Highlights were many and included Cape May Warbler at Orchard Hill as well as two Yellow Warblers there and four more at the Honeypot.  Lots of other warblers around although a little less than yesterday.  See my other blog for more details on the day.

http://quabbinbirdingandbeyond.blogspot.com/2012/09/orchard-hill-and-honeypotanother-cape.html

Orchard Hill warblers

American Redstart, Orchard Hill UMASS Amherst, Sept 16, 2012

Tennessee Warbler (best shot I could get of three present),Orchard Hill UMASS Amherst, Sept 16, 2012

Nashville Warbler, Orchard Hill UMASS Amherst, Sept 16, 2012

Common Yellowthroat, Orchard Hill UMASS Amherst, Sept 16, 2012

After a large migration of birds last night I birded Orchard Hill at UMASS with Ian Davies and part of the time with Scott Surner.  Not as many birds as I thought would be around but some good diversity with 12 species of warbler including three Tennessee Warblers, two Cape May Warblers, Nashville, Blackburnian and others.  The eBird list is here:
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S11593088

More warblers....

Northern Parula, Orchard Hill UMASS Amherst, Sept 12, 2012

Black throated Green Warbler, Orchard Hill UMASS Amherst, Sept 12, 2012

Magnolia Warbler, Orchard Hill UMASS Amherst, Sept 12, 2012

Yellow Warbler, Orchard Hill UMASS Amherst, Sept 12, 2012

Blackburnian Warbler, Orchard Hill UMASS Amherst, Sept 12, 2012

More warblers around today during my time at Orchard Hill and at home.  Highlights at Orchard Hill included Connecticut Warbler, 50+ Black throated Green Warblers, several Yellow Warblers, Blackburnian Warbler and others.  Here is the eBird list for the day:

http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S11565870

At home I had a few mixed species flocks move through with the highlight being a Cape May Warbler.

More photos from today (and the last few days) at my Flickr site:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/54277284@N05/sets/72157631355936860/

Totals for fall so far

Northern Parula, Quabbin Park, MA, Sept 11, 2012

Black throated Green Warbler, Quabbin Park, MA, Sept 11, 2012

Pine Warbler, Quabbin Park, MA, Sept 11, 2012

Northern Parula, Quabbin Park, MA, Sept 11, 2012

Black throated Green Warbler, Quabbin Park, MA, Sept 11, 2012

The last few days has seen a steady and impressive influx of warblers into western Massachusetts.  So far in September I have found 25 species of warbler with highlights including Connecticut, Cape May, Mourning, Bay breasted and several Tennessee Warblers.  It has been a very good fall so far and there are still a few weeks left to add additional species. 

More fall warblers

Prairie Warbler, Arcadia, Sept 9, 2012

Yellow Warbler, Arcadia, Sept 9, 2012

Common Yellowthroat, Honeypot, Sept 9, 2012

Birded the East Meadows and Arcadia in Northampton and the Honeypot in Hadley and found a nice selection of warblers including Tennessee, Prairie, Yellow and others.  A few photos from the day.

Tonight should see a good influx of birds and tomorrow should be good birding...time will tell.

Early fall warblers at UMASS and honeypot

Common Yellowthroat, honeypot section, Hadley, MA, Sept 7, 2012

I spent the morning birding with Ian Davies and Jacob Drucker at both Orchard Hill at UMASS and the Honeypot in Hadley.  Lots of good warblers around although overall numbers were low for most species except Common Yellowthroats that seemed to be everywhere.  Other species seen included Northern Parula, American Redstart, Black and White, Chestnut sided and Black throated Green Warbler at Orchard Hill and Yellow, Prairie, Nashville, Magnolia Warbler and American Redstart at the honeypot.

Early September warblers

Pine Warbler, Prescott Peninsula, MA, Sep 1, 2012

On September 1st I headed into Prescott Peninsula to check on several field complexes there to set up some survey points for next season.  During my time in there I had a great morning birding and ran across several mixed species flocks with a total of 14 warbler species with highlights including my first of year Cape May Warbler, a Bay-breasted Warbler, 3 Canada Warblers, and 4 Northern Parula's.  Other warblers seen on Prescott included Magnolia, Black throated Green, Black throated Blue, Blackburnian, Black and White, Chestnut-sided and Pine Warblers as well as American Redstart, Common Yellowthroat, and Ovenbird.The next day at Quabbin Park I added Prairie Warbler for the month and today I added Northern Waterthrush at Arcadia.