After a banner day of birding yesterday that produced both Hooded Warbler and Canada Warbler for me for the year in the US today was slightly less productive but I still managed to find some good stuff including three new species for me in Hampshire County this year with Tennessee Warbler, Wilson's Warbler and Cape May Warbler. I also relocated the Brewster's Warbler I originally found a couple days ago in Amherst plus Hooded Warbler in Hadley (I was once again unable to catch a glimspe but it did sing a bit) One of the more interesting birds of the morning was a Blue winged Warbler with a black forehead. I originally saw the individual a few days ago but thought the dark of the forehead was from being wet. Better looks today seems to show an individual with black on the forehead and not some wetness on the feathers. Beyond that plumage oddity the bird looked fine for a normal Blue winged Warbler. After getting home and taking Wilson for a walk I headed over to Herman Covey WMA to check on some of the managed areas and had great counts of Prairie Warblers and Blue winged Warblers (plus loads of ticks...they are always bad there). In addition I got to see some interesting behaviors with the warblers including watching a Magnolia Warbler hover hunt and a Blue winged Warbler getting harassed by a Ruby throated Hummingbird. Today produced my first 20 warbler species day for the spring.
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