35°C right now - Carmen is trying to stay cool 🪭🐦

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Vulture! At the Ledges

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#BirdCallOut this morning, just from what the Merlin app could identify:

Tennessee warbler -- sounded just like what I heard yesterday and got a glimpse of
Northern mockingbird
White throated sparrow, which sometimes move through here
Yellow rumped warbler, also likely a migrant
Great crested flycatcher - new to me!

Also seen/heard:
Northern cardinal
Goldfinches
Egrets
Cormorants
Chimney swifts
American robins

By the time I set up my scope, the songbirds had gone quiet or had left!

Hummingbird buzzed past my head!

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According to Liz, a Tennessee Warbler was singing outside our window this morning.

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One of my favorite moments of the spring - hearing the first Scarlet Tanager. It was up on the ridge and across the ravine. Saw a flash of red before it bolted further away. Now I’ll spend the summer trying to photograph it. 🤭 In the meantime, here’s a recording. You can hear it at the very beginning and very end of the sound file.

The roar you hear in the background is the brook, so turn volume up.

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We just got buzzed by five very upset geese, two pairs and one straggler, low enough to hear their feathers rustle.

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