With a few hours available this morning I headed to the Mt. Holyoke Range SP with two goals. The first was to try to locate a Hooded Warbler for Hampshire County for the year and the second to inventory Worm eating Warblers. Although I struck out on the first goal and found no Hooded Warblers I had much better luck with Worm eating Warblers. I hiked around four miles coming in from Bachelor Street in Granby and then up to Rattlesnake Knob and then back down. I ran across at least eight Worm eating Warblers with at least one carrying food. All but one of the birds was singing so the total number of individuals present is likely nearly double what I counted. The species is well distributed along the range and I suspect there are probably a couple of dozen pairs present.
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