Lake Frank delivers

It was a great morning @ MNR with a tally of 45 species. The first good bird of the morning was a White-eyed Vireo up the hill from the parking lot devouring a fat old caterpillar. It was clear from the start that a large number of Ruby-crowns had moved in and their subdued tsi tsi tsi song was heard often. Down by the pond a flock of 8 or so Tree Swallows was zipping around with at least on pair feeding young in one of the nest boxes. Two Blue-gray gnatcatchers were added on the way. At the junction between Muncaster Trail and Piney Run a patch tick in the form of two Brown Thrashers set the pace for the morning. At Lake  Frank which appeared initially dead, two great patch birds namely a hot-looking breeding plumage Common Loon and Horned Grebe were on show. Of course I did not miss the opportunity to take some craptastic pictures which I am sure will make you want to stab your eyes out with a rusty nail or something.

In terms of warblers only Pine and Yellow-rumps around today, but that should really be picking up from here on now.

MNR year: 58
MNR total: 73