I drove to the end of the road where it's barricaded and birded there, finding Red-eyed Vireo, American Redstart, and Blackpoll, Blackburnian, and Yellow-rumped Warbler. On the way back out, an Acadian Flycatcher was heard calling upstream from the Laurel Hill Road intersection. Farther along, I was surprised to see two Great Crested Flycatchers fighting each other on the side of the road.
The battle, apparently over territory, went on for over 5 minutes. It looked like the bird on the bottom was getting the worst of it, but they suddenly parted, and both flew off into the woods.
A Hooded Warbler was actively calling about halfway back to the main road.
Almost back to the paved road, I pulled over and got out of the car when I heard a Magnolia and a Canada Warbler. Chris Hess, another birder, pulled up and joined me. That's when a Black-billed Cuckoo called several times just out of sight. And right after that, two Barred Owls began calling back and forth to each other!
Other birds found along the road included Pileated Woodpecker, Eastern Phoebe, Yellow-throated and Blue-headed Vireo, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Wood Thrush, Field Sparrow, Scarlet Tanager, Indigo Bunting, and six additional warblers, totalling thirteen for the morning. They were Ovenbird, Northern Parula, Louisiana Waterthrush, Common Yellowthroat, and Blue-winged and Black-and-white Warbler.
I left there and headed over to the Martins Creek Nature Trail, originally known as the Tekening Trails. And now, it has apparently been renamed the John M. Mauser Nature Education Trail System. That's a mouthful, so I will continue to call it the Martins Creek Nature Trail. There, I found Eastern Phoebe, Great Crested Flycatcher, Eastern Kingbird, Red-eyed Vireo, Wood Thrush, American Goldfinch, Baltimore Oriole, Ovenbird, Blue-winged and Yellow Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, American Redstart, Northern Parula, Scarlet Tanager, Indigo Bunting, and at least two White-eyed Vireos.
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