h1. May 2015 birdwatching obs

Mon, May 18, 2015.

I have not recorded bird obs for each day in our neighborhood while exercise walking and walking Barney. I wish that I had. 

I don't know if this is a better than average migration through our area. I'll have to check BSBO banding data. But starting around May 2, we've had good migrating bird song in our neighborhood since.


h2. May 7 RIVP

Early on Thu morning, May 7, DD and I birdwatched for 55 minutes at Rossford Island View Park, but I did not record the obs. 

We heard a YTVI. We saw four INBU forage near each other on the gravel trail. We obs SCTA, RBGR, and several warbler species. 

For under an hour, it wound up being fine birdwatching.


h2. May 8 Ottawa Park

On Fri, May 8, DD and I arrived at Ottawa Park around 7:30 a.m. From my Field Notes notebook:

EAWP
RCKI
BAOR
BGGN
AMRE

(people setting up at shelter house and someone cranked music, blaring way too loud. A Tom Jones song was one of the songs.)

WPWA
NAWA
BLBW
MYWA
REVI
NOPA
TEWA
BTNW
SCTA
WAVI
BHVI
WTSP
**BWWA** - Blue-winged Warbler along the stream within the woodlot between the parking lot and Douglas Rd. We heard it and watched it.
CMWA (Cape May)
**SUTA** - I heard the drippy call notes, but I dismissed it. Then a short while later, I spotted a bird way up, and I looked like a Summer Tanager. The skylight was poor, so I rushed around to the other side. The bird foraged slowly, so I was able to find it. It was an adult male SUTA. I watched it for several minutes. This bird was located in the same area as the BWWA.
BBWA
BLPW
RBGR
WOTH signing

The small stream held a fair amount of water, and in one spot, we watched several warblers and other birds bath. 

Birds observed bathing: CMWA, 2 NOPA, BLPW, TEWA, MYWA, and REVI. The warblers got into the water and splashed. The REVI bathed by flying at the water and smacking the water and flying back up to a low perch over the stream. The REVI bathed like the WAVI that I watched bath a few years ago at Magee Marsh. The must be the vireo style of bathing.

By the stream area, we saw 4 or 5 Cape May warblers move through the understory.

Multiples of several species including: SCTA, BHVI, REVI, and many warblers. The activity was quite good in the woodlot, which contains a lot of oak trees.

This month, it has been obvious once again that the oak trees were major attractants to warblers and other bird species.

We ended birdwatching at Ottawa Park at 10:10 a.m. Around 2 to 2.5 hours of birdwatching.

On the way home, we stopped at the greenhouse/small grocery store, located at Douglas and Central (or Monroe). Cool little store. My first visit. We bought morel mushrooms that arrived earlier in the morning.


h2. Home May 8

At 10:40 a.m. over our backyard: 2 CMWA and TEWA.

The TEWA is an amazingly enthusiastic singer. It's strange not to hear a TEWA singing around our home. It's a common song each spring, during the second and third weeks of May.


h2. Home May 9

In the morning ...

LISP - v
CMMA - a
BTNW - a
TEWA - a
WAVI - a
**YWAR** - a - unusual to hear a Yellow Warbler in our neighborhood
NOPA - a
Male HAWO on the suet - v
Barn Swallows flying around from the bridge area - a and v
MYWA - v
2 BLBW - a
CSWA - a v
WTSP - v



h2. Home Sun, May 17

~1:40 p.m., Partly to mostly cloudy, breezy, warm and humid, low 80s.

REVI - a
BLPW - a
Barn Swallows flying overhead
CSWA - a
AMRE - a
BAOR - a
TEWA - a
SWTH - a and vi