With the cold fronts and bright sun today we're certainly hitting the right notes for migrants here in Marion. Birds everywhere. Went to the sewer poinds/rock dump/CottonWood River for a few minutes, to the park platform and stepped out back to the woods at Luta Creek. Here's the list....so far (this is fun):
Indigo bunting Northern cardinal White-throated sparrow Harris's sparrow Cedar waxwings (lots for weeks) House wren Canada goose Yellow-rumped warbler Chipping sparrow Black-and-white warbler Carolina wren Song sparrow Dickcissel (summer is here) Red-bellied woodpecker Tufted titmouse Chimney swift Robin Northern flicker Swainson's thrush (lots this year and for a week or two) Black-capped chickadee White-crowned sparrow Greater yellowlegs Northern rough-winged swallow (didn't see it, picked up on Merlin
Park downtown (was only here briefly looking for yellow warblers which I found at home, also on the creek like the park):
Northern parula (have heard this there for two weeks behind the police station) Eurasian collared dove (of course) Robin and House sparrow
Back home in the woods along Luta (Mud) Creek):
Mourning dove
Indigo bunting Northern cardinal White-throated sparrow Harris's sparrow Cedar waxwings House finch Blue jay Great crested flycatcher (been back about three days) Ruby-crowned kinglet Blackpoll warbler Red-eyed vireo (first day back) Yellow-rumped warbler Carolina wren Red-bellied woodpecker Tufted titmouse Robin Swainson's thrush
