Barred Owl Chicks, Mourning & Prothonotary Warblers and more...

[Scott Manly]

I had a time out in my "yard" (Ionia State Game Area) this morning and the last few mornings.  On Thursday morning, I had nice views of a Canada Warbler and a Blackburnian down low and singing actively.  They were competing with each other for my attention, making it very difficult to focus on either one for long.  This morning, I had the Prothonotary Warbler that is nesting in the woods of the SGA as well as Mourning Warbler, Blue-winged, Magnolia and Northern Parula.  The Yellow-breasted Chats aren't back yet (they showed up last year on May 27).  Also had a Grey-cheeked Thrush this morning.
 
Last week I had an adult male Orchard Oriole in the SGA, and later, I had a first year male Orchard Oriole there. The highlight today though, was the Barred Owl chicks in a nest I discovered last week.  Last year seemed to be the year of the Eagles (as I had a count of 475 eagle sightings for last year) and this year is the year of the Barred Owl (had some 15 sightings so far).
 
http://www.grovestreet.com/jsp/picview.jsp?album=71650&view=detail&sort=date_added&ord=desc&showtrash=1
 
Good birding,Scott Manly,
Ionia, MI
_________________________________________________________________
E-mail for the greater good. Join the i’m Initiative from Microsoft.
http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?source=EML_WL_ GreaterGood
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.envirolink.org/pipermail/mich-chat/attachments/20080525/28a8ea6d/attachment.html