Saturday, July 18, 2020

Warblers on the Prescott Peninsula

Common Yellowthroat, Prescott Peninsula, New Salem, MA, Jul 18, 2020
Common Yellowthroat, Prescott Peninsula, New Salem, MA, Jul 18, 2020
Pine Warbler, Prescott Peninsula, New Salem, MA, Jul 18, 2020
Ovenbird, Prescott Peninsula, New Salem, MA, Jul 18, 2020
Common Yellowthroat, Prescott Peninsula, New Salem, MA, Jul 18, 2020
Blackburnian Warbler, Prescott Peninsula, New Salem, MA, Jul 18, 2020
Yellow Warbler, Prescott Peninsula, New Salem, MA, Jul 18, 2020

Chestnut sided Warbler, Prescott Peninsula, New Salem, MA, Jul 18, 2020
American Redstart, Prescott Peninsula, New Salem, MA, Jul 18, 2020
I finally made it back onto the restricted access Prescott Peninsula to conduct some field surveys this morning and found some warblers along the way.  As we push into the third week of July the amount of song has been drastically reduced and the number of juvenile birds around has increased substantially.  I had a total of eleven species of warbler over the course of about two hours as I checked several fields and nearby areas.  No big surprises but that is not unexpected for this time of year.  There even seemed to be the beginnings of some mixed species flocks in a few areas as the post breeding dispersal and early fall migration begins.

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