The month of May comes and goes, and with it the warblers in my yard. This year was not, on the whole, bad -- 28 individuals across 11 species and five genera. And on one extraordinary day, May 11, I had seven species, including a new one for me, blue-winged warbler. Did I get a photo? I did not, and in fact, my photographs for the month were all terrible, including the one above. The Nashville warbler shown here was a bit of an outlier for me. It was the first warbler of the spring, and I saw more Nashvilles (three) this year than I had ever seen here in the spring.
Otherwise the year was pretty typical in terms of species. Magnolia was the winner, with seven separate birds, followed by ovenbird with four. Then there were the typical visitors: yellow, black-and-white, common yellowthroat, parula, redstart, and blackpoll. But outside of warblers, I saw very little in terms of migrants.
And how about the house sparrows? Oddly enough, there were not many at the beginning of the month, but they seemed to increase steadily as the month went on. And now that my neighbors have put feeders up, they are omnipresent.
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