Jacobsburg State Park and the Hollo Road Pond ~ April 24, 2025

I decided to do an all-morning walk at Jacobsburg State Park. With the landbird migration beginning to heat up, I was expecting to find some early watblers, but other than Common Yellowthroat, they were a no-show. I registered 46 species that included six new first-of-the-year birds for me----Great Crested Flycatcher, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Northern House Wren, Gray Catbird, Eastern Towhee, plus the Common Yellowthroat.

Great Crested Flycatcher

Gray Catbird

Other mentionables among the 46 species included Common Merganser, Sharp-shinned, Cooper's, and Broad-winged Hawk, American Kestrel, Belted Kingfisher, Eastern Phoebe, Tree and Northern Rough-winged Swallow, Brown Thrasher, Eastern Bluebird, Hermit Thrush, American Goldfinch, and Field, Chipping, Savannah, and White-throated Sparrow.

Sharp-shinned Hawk

American Kestrel

Eastern Bluebird

Savannah Sparrow

On the way home, I stopped at the Hollo Road retention pond. Present were 2 Green-winged Teal, a Killdeer, 10 Solitary Sandpipers, 2 Spotted Sandpipers and two very early Least Sandpipers. I got some badly-lit distant photos of them showing the relative size with one of the nearby Solitary Sandpipers.

Two very early Least Sandpipers.

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