There were several Blackpoll Warblers singing along the way. I also had two singing Canada Warblers, but as usual, I never saw either one in the thick brush. Other notables included Black Vulture, Pileated and Hairy Woodpecker, Eastern Wood-Pewee, Eastern Phoebe, Great Crested Flycatcher, Eastern Kingbird, Red-eyed Vireo, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Veery, Swainson's Thrush, American Goldfinch, Field Sparrow, Eastern Towhee, Baltimore Oriole, Scarlet Tanager, Indigo Bunting, and warblers that included Ovenbird, Yellow, Blue-winged, Blackburnian, Black-and-white, Chestnut-sided, Common Yellowthroat, and American Redstart.
There was a Great Blue Heron and a Lesser Yellowlegs at the Regency Boulevard retention ponds, but the most interesting birds there were a swirling group of swifts and swallows at the south pond. I conservatively counted 18 Chimney Swifts, 7 Northern Rough-winged Swallows, 6 Tree Swallows, 3 Barn Swallows, 2 Bank Swallows, and a Cliff Swallow.
I stopped at the Trio Farms Boulevard retention ponds and was lucky to see the red frontal shield of the continuing Common Gallinule through the cattails it often hides in. Also there were a Belted Kingfisher, an Eastern Kingbird, and 2 Northern Rough-winged Swallows.
A quick stop at Green Pond produced 2 Green Herons, a Warbling Vireo, 4 Barn and 3 Tree Swallows, and a Blackpoll Warbler. One of the two Green Herons perched in the small, wooded pond next to the house by the intersection.
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