Northern Parula
“This fellowship of the feather yielded some reasonable numbers of warblers including on September 13 immature and adult American Redstarts and an ensemble of Northern Parulas gleaning/fluttering in pursuit of small hairless inchworms like the fall canker worm.”
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Sightings in order by frequency of spotting - Black-throated Green warbler, Pine warbler, Palm warbler, Myrtle warbler, American Yellow warbler, Northern Parula, Black and White warbler, American Redstart, Nashville warbler, Ovenbird (a warbler of the forest floor), Chestnut-sided warbler and Magnolia warbler!
Other notables include: Surf and White-winged Scoters have arrived just offshore, a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, two Northern Parula’s and a female Nashville Warbler playing hide-and-go-seek, and one of my most favorite adaptable dwellers of our forestlands ,a single chattering Carolina wren.
Additional and previously mentioned warblers seen and/or heard across Cape so far this Spring include (listed by frequency of spotting), Myrtle Warbler, Palm Warbler, Pine Warbler, American Yellow Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, Northern Parula, Black and white Warbler…
This fellowship of the feather yielded some reasonable numbers of warblers including immature and adult American Redstarts and a handful of Northern Parulas.
I also was able to make out a female Nashville Warbler and five or more Northern Parulas that were rapidly flitting and hopping across the upper levels of Robinson Woods’ forest and subcanopy.
Other notable sightings included a singing Winter Wren, nice numbers of Pine Warblers, several Yellow Warblers, a single male Northern Parula (warbler) and a solitary Nashville Warbler perusing through an apple tree along shore Road.
This fellowship of the feather yielded some reasonable numbers of warblers including on September 13 immature and adult American Redstarts and an ensemble of Northern Parulas gleaning/fluttering in pursuit of small hairless inchworms like the fall canker worm.
Also, along Shore Road I heard many Northern Parulas.
Black-and-white Warblers and Northern Parulas seemed to be dripping from every tall oak and maple tree.
On the morning of September 11 following the big night I found three Northern Parulas, five American Redstarts and twelve Red-eyed Vireos along Shore Road and a single Great-crested Flycatcher along the field borders of Runaway Farm.
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On first day of June within the dark forest interior of Robinson Woods I was treated to a dusk chorus of Veery’s, Hermit Thrushes, a Winter Wren, Black-throated Green Warblers, Ovenbirds, Redstarts and Northern Parulas.
Not long after setting out I came across a little party of southbound American Redstarts and Northern Parulas darting and fluttering.
On this same day I spotted numerous Blackpoll Warblers, several Cape May and Northern Parula Warblers, a pair of Nashville Warblers and a single female Blackburnian Warbler.
Ovenbirds sounding off across the forest floor, Chestnut-sided, Pine, Myrtle, Black-and-White, American Redstart, Northern Parulas, Black-throated Green and first of season Blackpoll and Bay Breasted Warblers.
Also singing were Black-throated Green Warblers, Redstarts and Northern Parulas.
The following morning our backyard was carpeted with White-throated Sparrows along with an array of first of the year birds including a Northern Parula, two Gray Catbirds and a female Eastern Towhee.
That afternoon a walk around Hinkley Park in South Portland with my family yielded a Northern House Wren, Black-and-white Warblers, Black-throated Green Warblers, three Northern Parulas, a Chestnut-sided Warbler and a pair of male American Restarts.
American Redstarts and Northern Parulas clung to the branches of oaks, ashes and maples, as if dripping from the trees themselves.
Other recent highlights on this day in May included a singing Winter Wren, strong numbers of Pine Warblers, several Yellow Warblers, a single male Northern Parula, and a solitary Nashville Warbler working through an apple tree along Shore Road.
American Redstarts and Northern Parulas clung to the budding branches of oaks, ashes and maples, as if dripping from the trees themselves.