Prairie Warbler
“There we were treated to our first of the year Grasshopper Sparrows, Vesper Sparrows, Eastern Meadowlarks, Prairie Warblers galore and a singing male Scarlet Tanager.”
Through the year
Columns that mention it, by the month they were published.
Year by year
Columns that mention it each year.
In his words
All 4 passages, oldest first.
There we were treated to our first of the year Grasshopper Sparrows, Vesper Sparrows, Eastern Meadowlarks, Prairie Warblers galore and a singing male Scarlet Tanager.
Oh, how I missed not hearing the Prairie Warbler’s buzzy little tune!
And finally, on the sun filled day of May 12 at Hinkley Park, I spied a Swainson’s Thrush in a wooded section of the park and shortly thereafter a dashing Prairie Warbler sprang out from the low bushes under the powerline section to utter a succession of summery mellow buzzy notes.
Speaking of warblers, late-season reports across Casco Bay and its islands over the last two weeks included several Nashville Warblers, a Prairie Warbler and a Virginia’s Warbler on Peaks Island.