[birding] Grosbeak, tanager, pewee, bunting, and FOY visual on Swainson's Thrush

[Joel Geier]

Hi all,

All of the above were seen & heard yesterday morning: Rose-breasted
Grosbeak, Scarlet Tanager, Indigo Bunting, Eastern Wood-Pewee, and a
rather brownish-looking Swainson's Thrush which was singing
intermittently, during a 7-mile morning walk from my hotel in Reston
Virgina to Lake Fairfax Park & back.

Then I had to hop on a plane and fly home. I made it back to our place
just in time to hear their western counterparts singing in the evening:
BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK, WESTERN TANAGER, LAZULI BUNTING, WESTERN
WOOD-PEWEE, and ... well, still no Swainson's Thrush seen or heard
singing in this area.

Other nice birds from the past couple of mornings included
Black-throated Blue, Black-and-white & Magnolia Warblers, oodles of
Blackpoll Warblers (seemed to be the main warbler species still coming
through), Great Crested Flycatcher, Eastern Kingbirds, Eastern Phoebes,
Red-eyed & Blue-headed Vireos, Carolina Wrens & Chickadees, and my
favorites for the day -- Wood Thrush and Ovenbird. Plus more
mockingbirds and catbirds than I could count, and a couple of Brown
Thrashers.

An Ovenbird was reported in southern Nevada yesterday so we can always
hope for one here. But much more fun to see & hear some in a proper
eastern hardwood forest.

Happy birding,
Joel

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Joel Geier
Camp Adair area north of Corvallis