Migrants at Chimney Rock; Breeders in Mahlon Dickerson, May 12, 2012

The number of birds this morning from Chimney Rock in Martinsville is impressive. Jeff Ellerbusch had the following:

1 Least Flycatcher
8 Eastern Kingbird
15 Red-eyed Vireo
1 Bank Swallow – flyby at hawk watch platform.
2 Veery
2 Swainson’s Thrush
20 Wood Thrush
80 Cedar Waxwing (at least)
10 Ovenbird
2 Worm-eating Warbler
1 Blue-winged Warbler
8 Black-and-white Warbler
1 Nashville Warbler
5 Common Yellowthroat
18 American Redstart
1 Cape May Warbler
13 Northern Parula
9 Magnolia Warbler
2 Blackburnian Warbler
2 Yellow Warbler
14 Blackpoll Warbler
41 Black-throated Blue Warbler
28 Yellow-rumped Warbler
9 Black-throated Green Warbler
1 Canada Warbler
8 Scarlet Tanager
3 Rose-breasted Grosbeak
6 Indigo Bunting
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Simon Lane and myself toured Mahlon Dickerson in Jefferson Township this morning. Migrants passed this place by but a nice assortment of breeders and such were in the area including Least Flycatcher, multiple Acadian Flycatchers, probable nesting Blue-headed Vireo, Hooded Warbler, Louisiana and Northern Waterthrushes, etc. Three singing Hermit Thrushes were found, two in the vicinity of the black spruce bog and one at the Headley Overlook.
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Two Common Ravens were on a high-tension wire tower on Upper Hibernia Road in Rockaway Township.
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Red-headed Woodpecker(s) continues at the beaver swamp of the Tourne in Boonton Township.
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Joe Pescatore found a Pectoral Sandpiper, later seen by Jamie Glydon, to add to the existing collection of shorebirds at Melanie Lane Pond in Hanover Township.
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Submitted by Jonathan Klizas

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