A pair of Brown Thrashers, Wood Thrushes, and Gray Catbirds fed along the trail. Soon after I started my walk, I ran into Adam Miller who was searching through a group of birds that included Red-eyed Vireo, Great Crested Flycatcher, Tufted Titmouse, Northern Parula, plus Magnolia, Black-and-white, Black-throated Blue, and Yellow-rumped Warbler. Scarlet Tanagers and Baltimore Orioles were also nearby. A Green Heron was spotted circling unusually high overhead.
A first-year male Indigo Bunting was seen still wearing its blotchy blue and gray plumage. A Northern Parula preened at eye level along the creek.
Next to the Boulton parking area, Adam spotted a Wilson's Warbler in some brush. It eventually came out into view, allowing me to get these photos of it.
An Eastern Wood-Pewee perched on a dead branch near the Henry's Woods parking lot.
Two Spotted Sandpipers were along the creek below the bridge.
Also along the creek behind the buildings across the road from the visitor center were two Common Mergansers.
In the nearby brush, a Magnolia Warbler constantly flitted around and played hide-and-seek, making it impossible to get a photo of the whole bird.
Solitary Sandpiper, Great Blue Heron, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Pileated Woodpecker, Eastern Phoebe, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Eastern Bluebird, White-throated Sparrow, Ovenbird, Louisiana Waterthrush, Common Yellowthroat, American Redstart, and Yellow Warbler helped bring my morning's species total up to 59, 12 warbler species among them.
I stopped at Green Pond on the way home. It was still holding a good amount of shorebirds. I counted 26 Lesser Yellowlegs, 2 Greater Yellowlegs, 11 Solitary Sandpipers, 44 Least Sandpipers, 2 Spotted Sandpipers, 2 Killdeer, and a Wilson's Snipe.
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