Sorry can not do any more than just a few highlights from this weekend.
Mt Greylock: rain from 6:00 to 9:30. We waited it out at the summit. After the rain the first surprise was an adult male Northern Parula just my second time in June and the latest. One Blackpoll was present. We ended up with 14 warblers including 2 Canadas on the Saddleball trail. Due to the rain bird song was very quiet and a lot of birds were silent.
Since we could not do the mountain road the way I wanted I had about 20 minutes on Sunday morning to go up the mountain road before needing to get to the meeting spot for that trip. Windows open I drove up a couple of miles slowly turned around and came back down. Just one mile/one and quarter miles from the visitor's center I heard a Mourning Warbler (normal) which is why I wanted to go back.
Sunday's trip had its own surprise with a Blue-winged Warbler on October Mountain at the corner where the road goes to the picnic area next to Schoolhouse reservoir (I think thats the name). There is little to no habitat for this and this area was cut about 7 years ago so the secondary habitat has grown, but the make up of species is not what one would find blue-winged, but it was constantly singing.
The other interesting bird was two Red Crossbills which seemed to be searching for something; heard three times and seen in flight twice.
93 species for the weekend.
Glenn
Glenn d'Entremont: <gdentremont1...> Stoughton, MA
