Very Interesting Yard Day - 27 Aug 2016
I spotted a juvenile Eastern Towhee on the ground and got some great digiscoped images. I just forgot to put a card in the camera. It was gone by the time I corrected my mistake.
A 1st-year female American Redstart made a brief appearance in the yard! It was a difficult ID to make, but luckily I was able to see it black-tipped undertail spots. Otherwise, I would've thought it was a juvenile Magnolia Warbler.
I decided to clear away the brush at end of the grass so I borrowed my brother's weed-trimmer. A trip to Lowe's to get string resulted in another 12 bags of mulch, and a dozen perennials to plant once I'm done. I weed-sacked mostly grass, some emerging buckthorn, and a few willow sprouts, and mulched around some dogwood, black-eyed susan, and a few queen-ann's lace that I decided to keep. I managed to get the mulch down just before a nasty thunderstorm hit mid-afternoon.
I managed a short digiscoped 4K video of one of the juvenile Ruby-throated Hummingbirds just before dark.
Brownton Abbey, 26340 Higgins Way, Wayne, Michigan, US
Aug 27, 2016 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Protocol: Stationary
Checklist Comments: Yard
6 species
Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) 3
Brown Thrasher (Toxostoma rufum) 1
Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia) 2
Eastern Towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) 1
Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula) 8
American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla) 1
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Aug 27, 2016 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Protocol: Stationary
Checklist Comments: Yard
6 species
Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) 3
Brown Thrasher (Toxostoma rufum) 1
Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia) 2
Eastern Towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) 1
Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula) 8
American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla) 1
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S1
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (https://ebird.org/home)