Date: 4/25/26 5:24 pm From: Steve Shultz (via carolinabirds Mailing List) <carolinabirds...> Subject: 17 Warbler Morning in Boone
The last weekend of April is usually a pretty good time to visit the high country of North Carolina. The warblers are back, but the leaves are not.
While it hasn’t rained in a month, it decided to today, but between sunrise and 11:45 AM was able to tally 17 warblers (all seen) which is fairly close to the expected number of breeders, only Kentucky missing and I didn’t go to that spot. Maybe tomorrow.
Elk Knob has two or three singing male Golden-wings, Swainson’s is back at Trout Lake, and Blackburnian are singing from the campground area at Price Lake.
Quite a bit of the parkway is closed due to repaving, so folks hoping to have a scenic journey on that particular road will be disappointed until probably next year.
In a week or 10 days, the leaves will be out, and the birds will be harder to find, but for now viewing is good.
