Blue-headed Vireo
“On this same day along Shore road there were a wonderful dozen or more Blue-headed Vireo’s announcing their arrival with sweet slurred songs.”
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On the last day of September I heard the husky chatter of the Blue-headed Vireo.
On this same day along Shore road there were a wonderful dozen or more Blue-headed Vireo’s announcing their arrival with sweet slurred songs.
On one particularly noteworthy outing on Sept. 14 along the Great Pond Boardwalk (which is a dynamite birding location) I caught good glimpses at short range of two Blue-headed Vireo’s and a Philadelphia Vireo travelling among the boisterous chickadees.
A Blue-headed Vireo, another neotropical migrant was spotted methodically moving about the shrubbery nearby.
Additionally, on April 23 I was drawn to the window by what turned out to be a Blue-headed Vireo searching for insects midway up in a mature Red Maple Tree.
Later in the afternoon on October 5 I flushed a woodcock from a boggy area on our property and counted five singing Blue-headed Vireos.
On 9/18 I came across three Blue-headed Vireos along the northern entrance to Runaway Farm and on 9/20 in my backyard I noted eight, first of season White-throated Sparrows, three lingering Gray Catbirds and from my bedroom window, two Red-eye Vireos and one Philadelphia Vireo.
By the first day in May last year Gray Catbirds had already arrived as had Blue-headed Vireos, Blue Gray Gnatcatchers, Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, Indigo Buntings and Barn Swallows.
Two of the three Blue-headed Vireos paid no attention to me as they deliberately worked their way along the forest edges no more than a couple feet overhead.
Additionally, on April 26 I spotted my first Palm Warbler and Blue-headed Vireo of the season.
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Additionally, on September 16 I came across three cheery Blue-headed Vireos along the northern entrance to Runaway Farm and on September 20 in my backyard I noted a twenty-seven American Goldfinches, a continuing Ruby-throated Hummingbird and separately two Gray Catbirds, two Red-eye Vireos and a Philadelphia Vireo.
Later that morning I also discovered my first Blue-headed Vireo within Pond Cove.
And on a steamy early July afternoon within a particularly enchanting stand of old forest in Robinson Woods I, only one birdsong pierced the stillness—the persistent, uplifting warble of a Blue-headed Vireo.