After enduring multiple days with poor migration conditions that settled in just as the typical Mourning Warbler migration starts to show up in the area the weather finally became a bit more conducive for late season migrants to arrive. Although it was cloudy and cool once again on Saturday I was out looking and listening for any Mourning Warblers that might have arrived. My first stop in Ware did not turn up any and I got a text from Mary letting me know she had one along the rail trail in Amherst. I almost headed there but I didn't have a lot of time to spare so decided to stay with my original plan of going to Quabbin Park. After a bit of looking I found a couple Mourning Warblers and got recordings of one of the birds. I missed on a photo of either one as I was concentrating on getting a recording. I sent the recordings off to a researcher studying the four different regiolects of songs of Mourning Warblers and heard back the bird is part of the Newfoundland group. The Mourning Warbler becomes warbler species #30 for the year in Hampshire County. I ran across another one in Hadley yesterday and then two more today in the Quabbin area and got recordings of one of them. I will update when I hear back regarding the vocal group of the one today.
I will be sending off the recording to a researcher who studies the different regiolects of the species. The Mourning Warbler becomes warbler species #30 for Hampshire County for the year.
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