The last several days of November have featured well above normal temperatures and overall sunny conditions with highs most days well into the 70's, setting records for several consecutive days. During this time I have caught up with a number of late warblers species (all setting new late dates for me). On the 8th Ted had both Tennessee Warbler and Nashville Warbler in areas near the rail trail in Amherst so on the 9th I headed over to try to relocate the birds. Although I had no luck with the warblers Ted found I did run across a very late Magnolia Warbler at Wentworth Farm Conservation Area (my previous late date for the species was Oct 26, 2014). Mike L. found a few late warbler species in Hadley and after work today I headed over to the location to try to relocate them but had no luck so I headed back to Wentworth Farm in Amherst where the only warbler I had was a Yellow rumped Warbler. Later in the morning I noticed that Mike and Scott had both Tennessee Warbler and Wilson's Warbler in the same area Mike had some unusual warbler the day before so after walking Wilson I headed back over and quickly located at least three Tennessee Warblers and a female type Wilson's Warbler. I was able to get multiple photos of the Tennessee Warblers but the Wilson's Warbler was just too skulky. My old late dates for these warblers were Oct 21 for Tennessee Warbler (back in 2012) and Oct 20th for Wilson's Warbler (set earlier this year). It was amazing to catch up with multiple warblers on a single day well into the second week of November. (Thanks to Ted, Mike and Scott for helping me get to areas with late warblers). So far for the month of November I have had seven species of warbler which is the highest number I have ever had for the month of November.
I returned to the same area the next day and managed to get better views and a few marginal photos of the Wilson's Warbler.
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