With the winds from the southwest, the skies mostly overcast and the weather warm, there was little migration this morning but some of the birds that came in in the past few days are still around. The most notable sightings of this morning's walk were Black-throated Blue Warbler, Blue-headed Vireo, and lots of E. Phoebes (so many yesterday and today that they actually fight over the best insect-catching sites). Also at last one empid (possibly the same one seen yesterday). There are still quite a number of D-c Cormorants on the creek (although nothing like yesterday's incursion) as well as Greater Yellowlegs, Green Heron, several Great Blues and the usual egrets. There were at least half a dozen Osprey on the creek, at least one of which was flying off triumphantly with a good-sized fish in its talons.
Orhan Birol reports a female or juvenile Yellow-headed Blackbird among a large flock of Red-wings, presumably on the creek by his house in Pine Neck opposite us. I plan to keep an eye open for this bird in case it decides to roost with the Red-wings on this side of Weesuck Creek.
Eric Salzman
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