Today I had my best day so far with a total of 16 species of warbler despite the overcast and cool conditions. Even with poor migration conditions some birds will power through as the desire to move north to breed overpowers all and I added three new warbler species for the spring here including Nashville Warbler, Blackburnian Warbler and Chestnut sided Warbler. I'm still looking forward to a big influx that should happen at some point in the next few days. I started the morning in Ware along the rail trail and then finished my morning with a couple hours at Quabbin Park.
Yesterday was even cooler with some showers but I still managed to find a few warblers including a somewhat unusual in spring 'western' Palm Warbler and a Blue winged Warbler singing a Golden winged Warbler like song plus added my first American Redstart of the spring. I stopped at a few places on my way home including Sweet Alice Conservation Area where I caught up with the oddly singing Blue winged Warbler that Cory found the day before. It would alternate between the Golden winged Warbler like song and dawn type Blue winged Warbler song. There may be a little more yellow on the wingbars but other than that it looked like a typical Blue winged Warbler (I'll check on it again when the weather becomes sunnier and the colors can be seen better). The area has hosted Brewster's Warblers the last couple years so perhaps it is an offspring of a breeding of the Brewster's Warbler and a Blue winged Warbler. Most other stops were quiet for warblers except a small area in Quabbin Park that featured the 'western' Palm Warbler among seven other species (some of which showed quite well).
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