I took another hike up to our local air****t yesterday evening. In
addition to dozens of indigo buntings, I saw yellow-shafted flickers,
blue-winged warblers, several common yellowthroats and my second
yellow-breasted chat. In this case, I heard the Y-BC long before I
saw it. it was running through its inventory of sounds, and, at
first, I thought it was a mockingbird--they are very plentiful around
here. But there was a different character to the sounds, and I kept
scanning the dense shrubby trees for a glimpse of what was making
them. Suddenly, the Y-BC popped out and perched on a branch of a
broken wild cherry tree. I got a good look at it before it went back
into the cover, chatting away as it disappeared. i also saw Eastern
Kingbirds.
If the predicted rain for today holds off. I'm going to hike around
the nearby Pleasant Creek Wetlands Area this evening. It is full of
warblers.
J. Del Col
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