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Sparrows, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Yellow-rumped, Orange-crowned, and Nashville Warblers, Painted and Indigo Buntings, Eastern Wood-Pewee, Blue-winged Teal, Orchard Oriole and Eastern Kingbird.
Vagrants/rarities for the week have a wonderfully lengthy list between ongoing and more recent birds, which writer shall not differentiate. Inclusions were British Columbia’s Taiga Bean-Goose, Quebec’s Tundra Bean-, Barnacle, and Pink-footed Geese, Newfoundland and Labrador’s Tufted Duck, and Steller’s Sea-Eagle.
Delaware’s Curlew Sandpiper and Virginia’s Fork-tailed Flycatcher made headlines.
Florida’s Smoothbilled Ani, American Flamingo, Shiny Cowbird, and Mangrove Yellow Warbler included some prior visitors.
Texas’ Mexican Violetear, Little Egret, Mottled Owl, Brown Jay, Aplomado Falcon, Rose-throated Becard, Yellow-green Vireo, Tropical Parula, and Morelet’s Seedeater, which we cannot say in one breath.
Illinois and Minnesota’s Ruff and Wisconsin’s Kelp Gull raised eyebrows.
Arizona’s Buff-collared Nightjar, Blackcapped Nightcatcher, Rufous-capped Warbler, and Flame-colored Tanager were good birds to travel for.
Aleutian’s West Census Smew, Wood Sandpiper, Brambling, and Arctic Loon and Kenai’s Ivory Gull were good finds if you were there.
California’s Murphy’s Petrel was between land and the water.
Hawaii’s Tristram’s Storm, Bulwer’s, and Bonin Petrels, Christmas Shearwater, Nazca Booby, and Yellow-faced Grassquit were prime suspects.
There have only been two Super El Ninos since weather has been recorded – 1877 and 2015. Some people will remember the 2015 incident, and don’t take this lightly, because it can kill. This can affect this year’s hurricane season, there are potential temperature issues all year long, and this can affect us globally. This may be a strong one, and let’s hope that it is not due to what we have already read. We are already marching into 2-3 degree temperature rises in the ocean. If you want to know more, you will find out without even hearing anything.
Boomer Lake added Canada Goose, Mallard, Mourning and White-winged Doves, Chimney Swift, Spotted Sandpiper, Black Tern, Double-crested Cormorant, Black, Forster’s, and Forster’s/ Common Terns, Great Blue Heron, Turkey and Black Vultures, Mississippi Kite, Red-bellied, Red-headed, and Downy Woodpeckers, Least, Great Crested, and Scissor- tailed Flycatchers, Eastern Warbling and Red-eyed Vireos, Blue Jay, Fish and American Crows, Carolina Chickadee, Bank, Barn, Northern Rough-winged, and Cliff Swallows, Purple Martin, European Starling, Gray Catbird, Brown Thrasher, Northern Mockingbird, Eastern Bluebird, Swainson’s Thrush, American Robin, Cedar Waxwing, House Sparrow, House Finch, Chipping, Clay-colored, Lincoln’s, and White-crowned Sparrows, Eastern and Western Meadowlarks, Baltimore and Orchard Orioles, Red-winged Blackbird, Brown-headed Cowbird, Common and Great-tailed Grackles, Northern Waterthrush, Prothonotary, Tennessee, Northern Yellow, Blackpoll, Myrtle Yellow-rumped, Nashville, and Pine Warblers, Northern Cardinal, American Coot, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Spotted, White-rumped, and Semipalmated Sandpipers, Franklin’s and Ring-billed Gulls, Barred Owl, Eastern Kingbird, Tufted Titmouse, Carolina Wren, American Goldfinch, Yellow-headed Blackbird, American Redstart, Common Yellowthroat, Common Tern, domestic Mallard, Great Egret, Bell’s Vireo, Killdeer, Western Cattle Egret, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Indigo and Painted Buntings, Ruddy Duck and Rose-breasted Grosbeak.
Keep your eyes on the ground and your head in the clouds. Happy birding!
Deb Hirt is a wild bird rehabilitator and photographer living in Stillwater.
A Black Vulture.
CHARLES J. SHARP, CC BY-SA 4.0
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