[NatureNS] Pleasant Hill Update

Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 09:41:50 -0700
From: Clarence Stevens <birder_ca@yahoo.com>
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Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Sackville.  

This week the evenings have been very quiet  but Dennis has been doing a little better in the mornings.  His sightings for the mornings include Blackburnian, Wilson, Blackpoll,  Black-throated Green and Yellow Warblers.  Non warblers included House Wren, Kestrel, Savanna & Lincoln Sparrow. 

Friday mourning however has been the busiest, this morning Dennis and I racked up a nice little list of birds.  No big flocks but lots in individuals floating around. 

Highlights included: 

 1 House Wren near the Irving Street Entrance and possibly a  second one  near the Pig Run. Note the last 3 out of 4 falls there have been House Wrens at the cemetery and they generally stay until early December.

1 Immature Male Blue Grosbeak  with sparrow flock -  Irving Street Entrance

1 female Indigo Bunting  with sparrow flock - Irving Street Entrance, gave me great looks while I was sitting in my car, but both it and the Blue Grosbeak were nervous when we were out the car.

1 adult female Pine Warbler,  newly arrived constantly moving bird,  in the Left Side Corner and along the bottom of the cemetery. 

1 Lincoln Sparrow - present since last weekend  behind Tom's or along the entrance road.

1 Rusty Blackbird  with very nice rusty highlights - flyover. 

1  Eastern Phoebe - Pine Slope 

 - There were a fair number of flycatchers kicking around  the cemetery this morning most we identified, including a half a dozen each of Least and Alders. There was also an Alder/Willow  type flycatcher that made two sounds that neither of us have heard before.  I am going to do a little more research but I suspect Willow Flycatcher. 

- Insect eaters this morning included Blue-headed and Red-eyed Vireos, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Northern Parula, Magnolia Warbler,  Common Yellowthroat and Blackpoll. We also had a mystery warbler that may of been a Northern Waterthrush. 

- Sparrows included  Song, White-throated, Lincoln, Swamp, Savanna, and large mystery sparrow that may of been a White-crowned. 

Well there you go, some good birds and a few mysteries to chew on, hopefully some of these birds will stick around for the weekend. - Cheers, Clarence


PS: Last week I forget to mention that Fulton had a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher in the lower left hand corner of the cemetery. 

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