Ventured down along the Chubb Trail in St Louis Co this morn(World
Bird Sanc side)
looking for new spring arrivals
Good
portion of the Castlewood Loop section of the trail was
underwater
Highlight ,for me anyway, was a singing winter
wren.Seems to be a small window of time ,usually around the end of
March,beginning of April,when they will actually sing while
migrating.
Observed several hermit thrushes that were singing this morn
also
Other birds seen
-several yellow-throated
warblers,louisana waterthrushes,n-parulas,
-many blue-grey
gnatcatchers
-a couple of prothonotory warblers were singing from the flooded
bottomlands
- one black and white warbler singing
-at least 3 broadwing
hawks soaring across river along the Castlewood SP bluff line
-couple of
nesting red-shoulder hawks
-red eye vireos singing
-several migrating
yellow-bellied sapsuckers
-vesper and lincoln sparrows
-great horned
and barred owls
Mike Brady
Ballwin,MO
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