Jacobsburg State Park ~ May 1, 2025

This morning, I parked at the Boulton parking lot and started my usual loop from there. Just before reaching the footbridge, I came across a group of White-throated Sparrows feeding along the path and noted something white in among them. I got on it with binoculars and realized that it was a leucistic White-throated Sparrow! Luckily, I got some photos of it before it disappeared into the brush.

A leucistic White-throated Sparrow.

Farther along, I got some photos of a Wood Thrush and an Ovenbird, followed by my first-of-the-year Veery.

Wood Thrush

Ovenbird

Veery

Atop the hill, I found a Great Crested Flycatcher, 3 Blue-headed Vireos, a Yellow-throated Vireo, a Chestnut-sided Warbler, a Black-throated Green and 2 Black-throated Blue Warblers, many of the day's count of 16 Baltimore Orioles, and 3 Indigo Buntings.

Yellow-throated Vireo

Black-throated Blue Warbler

Baltimore Orioles

Indigo Buntings

A Brown Thrasher posed nicely along the path by the new powerlines.

Brown Thrasher

A Louisiana Waterthrush sang loudly along the creek across the road from the visitor center.

Louisiana Waterthrush

A Green Heron was fishing in the creek just below the footbridge by the Herny's Woods parking lot.

Green Heron

Other birds comprised of the 55 species included 2 Wood Ducks, a Common Merganser, a Great Blue Heron, 2 Broad-winged Hawks, a Belted Kingfisher, 2 Eastern Phoebes, Tree, Barn, and Northern Rough-winged Swallows, a Ruby-crowned Kinglet, a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, 3 Northern House Wrens, 27 Gray Catbirds, 4 American Goldfinches, 7 Field Sparrows, 5 Eastern Towhees, 4 Common Yellowthroats, 2 Black-and-white Warblers, a Blue-winged Warbler, and a Yellow Warbler among 57 White-throated Sparrows.

The Hollo Road retention pond contained 9 Solitary Sandpipers and a Green Heron plus a nearby Yellow Warbler.

The Newburg Road retention pond held a Greater Yellowlegs and a Killdeer.

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