Fewer Warblers Today - 13 Sep 2026

Elizabeth Park was slow this morning. It was warm and humid and still. Few birds calling. Fewer birds seen. I happened upon a tiny flock of mainly Bay-breasted Warblers like the one above, but it did include a Black-throated Green Warbler and this Blackpoll Warbler (orange feet).

In an attempt to follow the flock I cut through the dry creekbed and happened upon this Chicken Of The Woods fungus (Laetiporus sulphureus).

Laetiporus sulphureus is a species of bracket fungus (fungi that grow on trees). Its common names include sulphur polypore, sulphur shelf, and chicken-of-the-woods. Its fruit bodies grow as striking golden-yellow shelf-like structures on tree trunks and branches. Old fruitbodies fade to pale beige or pale grey. The undersurface of the fruit body is made up of tubelike pores rather than gills.

Found in Europe and North America, L. sulphureus is a saprophyte and occasionally a weak parasite, causing brown cubical rot in the heartwood of trees on which it grows. Unlike many bracket fungi, it is edible when young, although adverse reactions have been reported.

With no more birds I collected a pair of fresh Black Walnuts and a Swamp White Oak acorn attached to a twig of leaves that had just fallen. They are going into the ground at home.

Elizabeth Park (Trenton), Wayne, Michigan, US
Sep 13, 2026 8:30 AM - 9:05 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.58 mile(s)
Checklist Comments:     Sunny, hazy, calm, humid, 72F
20 species

Canada Goose (Branta canadensis)  80
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)  4
Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura)  1
Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis)  2
Great Egret (Ardea alba)  1
Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)  1
Belted Kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon)  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus)  1
Downy Woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens)  1
Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus)  1
Eastern Wood-Pewee (Contopus virens)  1
Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)  1
Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor)  1
White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis)  1
Tennessee Warbler (Leiothlypis peregrina)  1
American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla)  1
Bay-breasted Warbler (Setophaga castanea)  1
Blackpoll Warbler (Setophaga striata)  1
Black-throated Green Warbler (Setophaga virens)  1
Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S392487874

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