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Hi everone, We had our annual field trip to Weston Bend State Park today. I had lots of excellent pairs of eyes and ears helping out finding the birds on the bike trail. In fact, I think we had @ 32 pairs! This has been a weird spring. I suspect migration is late....we had quite a few ruby crowned kinglets and a female purple finch today. Also alot of the migrants were not singing, just a few notes and songs here and there, so even with all the eyes, it was not easy locating them. We also had two of the best birders in the country walking with us (Mark Robbins and Jon Dunn) and they even commented how silent the birds were. The birds we saw were very busy filling up their bellies. We did have a great day in spite of the silence, (except the songs of the nesters) and ended up with 18 species of warblers. We did great also on vireo species (7 species) I will just list the trip birds, and if I left any off, please let me know. Oh yeah I forgot...mammal species...1 poor abandoned young guinea pig found near trail emaciated and dehydrated, who now has a home at Leo zoo. Great Blue Heron Turkey Vulture Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Mourning Dove Ruby-throated hummer Red-headed woodpecker (little bean marsh) Red-bellied wp Downy Hairy w.p. Flicker Pileated (little bean marsh) E. Wood pewee Acadian Least Flycatcher E. Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher White-eyed vireo Bell's Vireo (at the front gate @ 7:00 while waiting for gate to open) Yellow-throated Vireo Blue-headed Warbling Philadelphia Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay Purple Martin BC Chicadee Tufted Titmouse Wh Breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren House Wren Blue-gray gnatcatcher E. Bluebird Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Wood thrush Robin Ruby-crowned Kinglet B. Thrasher Golden-winged Warbler (*5 individuals) tennesee Orange-crowned Nashville N. Parula Yellow (little bean marsh) Yellow-rumped Warbler (little bean marsh) Yellow-throated Warbler Blackpoll Black and white A. Redstart Ovenbird La Waterthrush Kentucky C.Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Wilson's Y-breasted Chat Summer Tanager Scarlet Tanager E. Towhee Chipping Field Sparrow White-throated Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Red-winged Blackbird B.H. Cowbird Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole Purple Finch Have a birdy spring! nancy Nancy Leo Prairie Village, KS [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------------ The Audubon Society of Missouri's Wild Bird Discussion Forum To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://po.missouri.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mobirds-l&A=1