Eight people joined us for this spring walk around Fisher Meadows park in Avon Connecticut on May 17.
It was a cloudy foggy morning and the weather leading up to the day had generally not been great so our expectations for true migrants was low.
Therefore, we focused on the songs of many resident birds. We were not disappointed in finding many of the residence species, including Baltimore Orioles, Rose breasted Grosbeaks, Great Crested Flycatcher, Warbling Vireo, Orchard Orioles, and a good supply of Yellow Warblers. A double crested cormorant was seen fishing in the pond. We were lucky enough to find at least two Wilsons Warblers through their song and got decent looks at both of them. We also found a Magnolia Warbler via its song and then got some tantalizing views through the pine tree. There was at least one Canada Warbler heard briefly, but not everybody got on the bird or got looks.
We had a total of 40 species for the day.
Thanks to Barry Marsh keeping a list of what we saw and heard.
Brian Toal, Trip Leader
