Cruisin with Birds and Brews – Trip Report

Yesterday’s Cruisin with Birds and Brews walk had light attendance, a total of Four. The group waited out 15 minutes of rain standing under a roof brought to us by an SUV Hatch. This allowed the group to have good close by view of a male Common yellowthroat, our only warbler species for this walk. It was feasting on seed from the adjacent overgrown parking lot grasses and flowers approximately 15 feet from where we stood. Other species interacted with this bird as well. The rain stopped and we had 26 species in all. Swamp sparrow being our first, heard only. Many woodpecker species including groups of flickers graced our presence. A Common raven could be heard and seen at times on the tower across the CT river, as well as buteo and gull near the Rocky Hill side ferry parking lot. The temp was mild. Other species of note, cormorant, heron and phoebes. The phoebes 3 total put on a dance at times near the guardrails and nearby trees. We totaled 10 Tree swallows moving south, on which if we focused on a count for this species there would likely have been hundreds.