Next, I walked a roughly two-mile loop around Jacobsburg State Park and found 57 species. Today produced the most Blue-headed Vireos I've ever seen in one day. The total of 16 included six in one tree! There was also a good movement of Black-and-white and Black-throated Green Warblers, 19 and 14 respectively. Of the 57 species, there were 14 species of warblers, which are listed here with their numbers in decreasing order.
19 Black-and-white Warblers
14 Black-throated Green Warblers
8 Ovenbirds
8 Yellow-rumped Warblers
4 Common Yellowthroats
4 Yellow Warblers
3 Nashville Warblers
3 American Redstarts
3 Blackburnian Warblers
2 Black-throated Blue Warblers
1 Louisiana Waterthrush
1 Blue-winged Warbler
1 Cape May Warbler
1 Northern Parula
I didn't get to take very many photos because there were often too many birds to identify, but here's a sampling of some of the warblers I did get.
I also got photos of Baltimore Oriole, Veery, and Eastern Bluebird.
A Bald Eagle and an Osprey were seen flying overhead.
Along the creek, I saw 2 Common Mergansers, 2 Belted Kingfishers, and 2 Northern Rough-winged Swallows at a nest hole in a slate rock face.
Other notables were Solitary Sandpiper, Pileated Woodpecker, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, House Wren, Gray Catbird, Brown Thrasher, Wood Thrush, American Goldfinch, Field and Chipping Sparrow, Eastern Towhee, and impressive counts of 74 White-throated Sparrows and 59 Blue Jays.
On the way back, I stopped at the Newburg Road retention pond, walked one of the fields, and found two Savannah Sparrows.
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