Tuesday, March 31, 2020

End of March warblers

Pine Warbler, Quabbin Park, MA, Mar 31, 2020
Pine Warbler, Quabbin Park, MA, Mar 31, 2020
Yellow rumped Warbler 'myrtle', East Meadows, Northampton, MA, Mar 18, 2020

Yellow rumped Warbler 'myrtle', East Meadows, Northampton, MA, Mar 18, 2020
Yellow rumped Warbler 'myrtle', Arcadia, Northampton, MA, Mar 18, 2020
As the month of March comes to an end the warbler season is soon to start ramping up slowly but steadily over the next few weeks.  The ongoing Covid 19 pandemic certainly has and will continue to have an impact on birding for me.  In Hampshire County for the month I found two species of warbler with multiple Yellow rumped Warblers successfully overwintering as well as the first migrant Pine Warblers arriving late in the month.  The Pine Warbler at a feeding station in Granby successfully overwintered (which I believe is a first for the species in the area).  I specifically went looking for overwintering Yellow rumped Warblers on 3/8 to Arcadia and found four individuals and then again on 3/18 to Arcadia and the East Meadows where I found an amazing 17 at Arcadia and half a dozen in the East Meadows.

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