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There were migrant birds in the Kennedy Forest this morning: 21 Yellow-rumped Warbler 20 Nashville Warbler 8 Tennessee Warbler 4 Blue-winged warbler 2 Chestnut-sided Warbler 2 Palm warbler 2 Wood Thrush 2 Indigo Bunting 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 Ovenbird 1 Northern Parula 1 Black-throated Green Warbler 1 Blackpoll Warbler Conspicuous in their absence, any species of: flycatcher vireo "big warblers" (grosbeak, tanager, oriole) Swainson's Thrush I will take this opportunity to fess up to my St Louis year-listing friends that on Saturday I heard, but did not see, what could only have been a Swainson's Warbler at the place we call "the wet spot." The reason you didn't hear about it Saturday was that (here comes the hard part) at the time I heard it, I didn't know what I was listening to. This is the first spring I've been using my new digital, frequency-shifting hearing aid. It's a learning experience. Each day of the last 2 weeks I've heard species that I've never heard sing or call before while wearing the device but which I assume that I've heard many times before. Several times each morning I find myself thinking, "What the heck is that?" only to discover that it's a cowbird or towhee. When I heard the bird in question, which called 6-7 times, my reaction was "That's a goofy-sounding Hooded Warbler." Swainson's Warbler never occurred to me. The bird was way back in the bush. When it stopped singing I passed it off with, "I'll figure it out the next time I hear it." It wasn't until the next day while I was listening to recordings of all the warblers at home while wearing the hearing aid that the "holy canolis!" reaction happened. Sorry. Randy Korotev Saint Louis, MO [log in to unmask] __________________________________________________ ########################################################### * Audubon Society of Missouri's * * Wild Bird Discussion Forum * *---------------------------------------------------------* * To subscribe or unsubscribe, click here: * * https://po.missouri.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mobirds-l&A=1 * *---------------------------------------------------------* * To access the list archives, click here: * * http://po.missouri.edu/archives/mobirds-l.html * * * * To access the Audubon Society of Missouri Web * * Site: http://mobirds.org * ###########################################################