Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Record early Cerulean Warblers and Worm eating Warblers today tie me with my best April ever in Hampshire County

Cerulean Warbler, Skinner SP, Hadley, MA, Apr 30, 2025
Cerulean Warbler, Skinner SP, Hadley, MA, Apr 30, 2025
Worm eating Warbler, Skinner SP, Hadley, MA, Apr 30, 2025
Blue winged Warbler, Rail trail, Amherst, MA, Apr 30, 2025

April has now come to an end and with a decent influx of early arriving warblers thanks to multiple bouts of great migration conditions and I managed to tie my best April ever in Hampshire County with an amazing twenty species for the month (I also had twenty species last year thanks to a few rarities and more early arrivals).  I bet if I was able to get out a bit more the last couple days I could have added a species or two but I cannot complain with having so many species for April, especially with no rarities around.  I did get a few record early dates for species including two more today with Cerulean Warbler and Worm eating Warbler (beating my previous earliest dates by a couple of days with Cerulean Warbler and a day with Worm eating Warbler...first time I have had either species here in April).  Now we enter into the big month of warblers and I will be out as much as circumstances allow. 


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