Two days after the Town Dock Purple Martin colony exploded in what I am calling a 'dread' -- all the inhabitants suddenly flying up over the colony in a seething mass of apparently disturbed birds -- the birds appear to have largely abandoned the nesting site itself. Most of them, however, are still in the area, either in flight or perched on nearby dead tree limbs. We'll see what happens next.
Most of the birds of the season were present including Great Blue Heron, a flyover Black-crowned Night Heron, Royal Terns, etc. I was surprised to hear a Yellow Warbler singing at the edge of the woods so late in the season. A rather tatty-looking juvenile warbler at the marsh edge was probably a young Yellowthroat. Red-winged Blackbirds and Common Grackles are starting to form flocks and woodland birds, usually led by Chickadees, Titmice and/or Catbirds are starting to move through the woods in feeding flocks.
Eric Salzman
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