Oak Openings Breeding Bird Updates

[Matt AndersonParticipant]

Sunday, June 2 (Tornado Alley)
* Olive-sided flycatcher
* Yellow-breasted chat (2 singing males)
* Summer tanager (2 singing males)

Monday, June 3
* Yellow-billed cuckoo – Wabash-Cannonball Trail 1/3 mi west of Girdham Road
* Alder flycatcher – SW of intersection of Sager and Wilkins Roads
* Veery (3) – along Wabash-Cannonball Trail east of Girdham
* Lousiana waterthrush (pair) abash-Cannonball Trail 1/3 mi west of Girdham Road; undoubtedly breeding nearby
* Black-throated green warbler – singing male 0.4 mi west of Girdham Road
* Blackburnian warbler – singing male 0.4 mi west of Girdham Road
(At one point, I was able to hear all three of these rare breeding season warblers simultaneously!)
* Summer tanager – near dunes, Girdham Road
* Henslow’s sparrow – calling along Girdham road a few hundred yards north of Reed

[Matt AndersonParticipant]

Saturday, June 8
* Red-breasted nuthatch – pine woods about 150 yards north of the intersection of Oak Openings Parkway and Wilkins Road
* Blue grosbeak – two singing males near Horse Rider Center on Jeffers Road
* PURPLE FINCH – singing (probably first-year, brown) male along Oak River Lane (about 150 yards west of Route 295). This may be a first Oak Openings (and local?) breeding season record since the early 1990’s!

[Matt AndersonParticipant]

Sunday, June 9
* Sora – 2 at Irwin Prairie where they are surprisingly scarce during the breeding season even when it remains wet
* VIRGINIA RAIL – 1 at Irwin Prairie, my first-ever (surprisingly again) record of this species in the Oak Openings during the breeding season.
* Wilson’s snipe – single calling bird at Irwin Prairie
* NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL – calling bird just after 5am in woods a bit NW of the Horse Rider Center along Jeffers Road in OOPM; called for 20-30 seconds, high-pitched toots (There are a couple of OOPM breeding records, the most recent in 1978 with photos.)
* Alder flycatcher – 2, along Whitehouse-Spencer Road just south of Old State Line Road and one along Schwamberger Road about 1/4 mile north of Old State Line Road
* Yellow-throated warbler – singing male at Secor Metropark (where stream crosses Tupelo Drive)
* Henslow’s sparrow – airport property adjacent to Route 20-A just west of Eber Road
* Grasshopper sparrows – 5, two at Henslow’s sight and three more along mud lane that serves as a south extension of Degenfelder Road

[Matt AndersonParticipant]

My bad…

The Louisiana waterthrushes, Black-throated green warbler, Blackburnian warbler, and Yellow-billed cuckoo were all seen EAST (not west) of Girdham Road.

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