Rock Wren in PA! ~ October 3, 2018

Once again, I got a call from Jason Horn, who has been great at filling me in on the latest bird news. He had seen an eBird report from southeastern Pennsylvania with some cell phone photos of a bird that looked like a Rock Wren, a western U.S. wren species! As it turned out, the birders who reported it, Ben & Elliot Dziedzic, had correctly identified it as a Rock Wren, a first for PA! I got out of work in the early morning, took a one-hour nap, and then drove a little over an hour to the Dixon Meadows Preserve near Lafayette Hill, PA. Happily at first light, the bird appeared on a gabion among a group of rocks. It then flew back and forth between a rock-filled drainage bed (where it was originally found the evening before) and where it was spotted at first light that morning. It eventually got light enough for me to grab some photos of it, which was icing on the cake.

More photos of the bird can be found in my Pennsylvania Notables Album.

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