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| Green-tailed Towhee Pipilo chlorurus |
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| Green-tailed Towhee Pipilo chlorurus |
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| Yellow-rumped Warbler Setophaga coronata |
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| Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia |
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| Yellow Warbler Setophaga petechia |
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| Black-throated Green Warbler Setophaga virens |
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| Cape May Warbler Setophaga tigrina |
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| Chestnut-sided Warbler Setophaga pensylvanica |
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| Bay-breasted Warbler Setophaga castanea |
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| Gray Catbird Dumetella carolinensis |
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| Northern House Wren Troglodytes aedon |
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| Common Tern Sterna hirundo |
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| Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax |
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| Canada Goose Branta canadensis |
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| L’attroupement |
…that is the question. Towhee is the answer! I was about to head out with Dan on a spring warbler hunt on Monday when I got a text from George about a Green-tailed Towhee that was discovered in relatively nearby Frayère. This bird should be skulking in the Utah sagebrush. So we went.
The spot (Parc de la Frayère) was a nice little spot on the water, wooded paths and pondy bits. Very birdy overall, with 13 species of warbler encountered with little effort.
The rare itself was easy enough to find – it was hopping around on and next to the trails. It had gathered a crowd of 20+ folks, who were on the whole well behaved.
Learned a new French word: ‘l’attroupement.’ I like it. One thing I noticed while amongst the photog clot was that my DSLR camera shutter is crazy noisy compared to others. Ka-CHONK Ka-CHONK! Or maybe it isn’t, and it’s like when you’re eating chips and they sound loud only inside your skull.
We got our looks at the bird, which was fossicking in the leaf litter, then did a lazy tour of the trails, and ended up with 55 species. The trip ended with a surprise adult male Northern Harrier floating over one of the curved on-ramps for the Champlain Bridge.
I heard the bird ended up being a one-day wonder. The fickle winds of migration taketh away!
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