This morning was pretty much the same as yesterday with lots of Catbirds at the head of the marsh along with Flickers and Red-bellied Woodpeckers (both eating Tupelo berries; the black-and-white woodpeckers were busy woodpecking elsewhere), both wrens, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Common Yellowthroats (many) and Black-and-white Warbler. Also an empidonax flycatcher (too brief a look for any ID) and a stream of swallows high overhead (mostly Tree but also some Barns mixed in; couldn't ID anything else). Two Red-tailed Hawks -- but no Bald Eagles. One 'new' bird: a Parula Warbler high in the trees around the head of the marsh.
This blog will be quiet for the next two weeks as we'll be in Ecuador, a country we haven't visited since one of our first trips abroad way back when. Famously, when we visited Mindo -- a mountain town in the middle of the Choco cloud forest -- we stayed in a rather run-down place on the main square (it was called a Residencia not a hotel or lodge). The way you turned on the light was to hook two bare wires together! Ah, those were the days! Nowadays, Mindo is a bit of an eco-tourist center but apparently the birds are just as good. I will file a report on my return.
Eric Salzman
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