Finally a Green Heron. This is a locally nesting species and May 27 seems awfully late for its arrival here but arrive it did this morning with its distinctive and vociferous 'keeow'. Welcome back Butorides virescens!
Eastern Wood-pewee still peweeing away in the adjacent woods and the loudmouth wolf-whistle Baltimore Oriole equally present. Heard a single Red-eyed Vireo calling briefly; these birds appear here every year but never seem to stay and breed. Oddly enough, no sign of the Eastern Phoebe which I thought was breeding somewhere in the neighbor hood.
Otherwise just the usual locals: the two noisy wrens, many Catbirds, many Robins, a few Blue Jays, the two warblers (Yellowthroat and Yellow), many Red-winged Blackbirds, Common Grackles, the three woodpeckers (Downy, Red-bellied and Flicker), Mourning Doves, Barn Swallows, an active colony of Purple Martins, Song and Chipping Sparrows, White-breasted Nuthatch, Cardinals and did I forget anyone? Black-capped Chickadee and Tufted Titmouse are undoubtedly here but quiet; didn't see them today. Oh yes, American Goldfinch, occasionally singing and apparently paired up but not yet breeding.
Eric Salzman
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