Other birds of note included Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Chimney Swift, Great Blue Heron, Great Crested Flycatcher, Red-eyed and Yellow-throated Vireo, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Eastern Bluebird, Wood Thrush, Cedar Waxwing, American Goldfinch, Baltimore Oriole, Scarlet Tanager, Indigo Bunting, and warblers that included Ovenbird, Hooded, Yellow, Blackpoll, Common Yellowthroat, and Northern and Louisiana Waterthrush.
While looking at the Olive-sided, I got a text from Megan Davis that she had found a Blue Grosbeak along Miller Road in Lower Mount Bethel Township. I was actually planning to stop there anyway on the way back home to listen for Grasshopper Sparrow, so seeing this bird would be a bonus. I got there and, after about 15 minutes, saw the bird perched on a wire along the road. It stayed long enough in good light to get these nice photos of it.
I parked farther up the road, got out of the car, and listened for Grasshopper Sparrow. After a while, I saw a bird fly low along the field and land behind a tuft of grass. I very slowly walked towards it, struggling to see the bird through the grass. It was a Grasshopper! I took some photos of it while partially hidden behind the grass clump.
I stood still for at least 20 minutes, hoping that it would eventually emerge from the grass, and it finally did. That's when I was able to get the best photos I will probably ever get of this sparrow.
I stopped at the Hollo Road pond and saw a Great Egret there. While taking photos of it, I spotted the Glossy Ibis at the near edge of the pond!
I once again sent out a text about it. Later, Mike Schall had it about ten feet up in one of the trees at the near right edge of the pond.
I stopped at the Newburg Road retention pond and found a Green Heron there.
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