Warbler Soup … Mega-Fallout

BONUS EXCITEMENT for birders

BONUS POST - too excited to wait until Sunday

A couple of weeks ago I posted here some reasons why everyone needs a pond and waterfall in their gardens as a bird-magnet and I gave some suggested basic instructions for essential features. Subsequently, a gratifying number of people approached me to ask questions. “Build it and they will come” was my basic message - with fingers crossed behind my back as thus far in May things have been OK-ish at best.

Then 3:15 this afternoon arrived … and, well, I hope that you like photographs, because it was sheer mayhem in the header pool at the top of the waterfall for 15-20 minutes.

We saw, and photographed …

• Chestnut sided Warblers

• Bay-breasted Warblers

• Blackburnian Warbler(s)

• Tennessee Warblers

• Indigo Buntings

• Cape May Warbler

• Magnolia Warbler

• Yellow-rumped Warbler

All those appear in the photos below. In addition we recorded Red-eyed Vireo, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, American Robin, American Goldfinch and a female Cowbird.

Here we go:

Blackburnian Warbler

Chestnut-sided Warbler

Bay-breasted Warblers (male)

Bay-breasted Warbler (female)

Tennessee Warbler

Indigo Bunting

Cape May Warbler (female)

Magnolia Warbler

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Earlier in the day we had a female Cape-May Warbler in the Sour Cherry Tree

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Now - go and dig that pond over the weekend.

When next Sunday’s regular edition appears, matters will have calmed down a bit 😉

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