S6E18 - Dawn Hike at Deer Lick Run, Part 2 (Magnolia Warbler)

[00:00:02] The Magnolia warbler is a songbird of dense conifers, found in the boreal forests and

[00:00:42] in the Appalachians.

[00:00:46] The males have a striking plumage which is a mix of black and yellow colors, including

[00:00:52] a distinctive bold black necklace pattern draped down their chest.

[00:00:59] Their song is a short warble often described as weeda weeda weeda, but sometimes, such as

[00:01:08] in this example, it can sound quite similar to the hooded warbler and can even share

[00:01:14] the same mnemonic, weeda weeda weedio.

[00:01:19] Here's a hooded warbler for comparison.

[00:01:24] And here again is the Magnolia warbler.

[00:01:41] My name is Rob, and this is Songbirding.

[00:01:43] There's a scarlet tanager in there.

[00:02:43] Of course there's wood thrush.

[00:02:44] It's got the Piroli Pirolae to its song.

[00:03:53] Blue jay as well.

[00:03:54] There it is again.

[00:04:00] So this early in the morning, this is somewhere that has no anthropogenic sound at all.

[00:04:42] So I think it's currently 6am roughly.

[00:04:48] Every once in a while I hear a distant rumble.

[00:05:18] It's actually Pileated Woodpeckers drumming.

[00:05:23] It's just so distant.

[00:05:24] It's muffled.

[00:05:25] Oh, see some chickadees?

[00:05:48] The amazing thing with a place like this is you'll hear all these birds, but you

[00:05:55] have to look hard to see them often.

[00:05:58] It's got either a hooded or Magnolia warbler up ahead.

[00:07:24] Let's get a little closer.

[00:07:59] It's more like Magnolia to me.

[00:08:00] It's too fast.

[00:08:01] Of course it's got a blue jay making a lot of sounds.

[00:09:34] Another Magnolia warbler.

[00:10:03] Some interesting blue jay sounds.

[00:10:11] Just heard a black bernion warbler.

[00:10:22] See if we hear that again.

[00:10:34] There we go.

[00:10:35] The wee wee wee and then just keeps going up higher and higher pitch until it's barely

[00:10:41] audible.

[00:10:42] That one there.

[00:10:56] Males have bright orange throats.

[00:11:15] And they're part of the cover art of the podcast.

[00:11:26] I think I found where it is.

[00:11:28] Let's get a little closer.

[00:12:38] It's a Magnolia warbler.

[00:12:40] Black with a green warbler.

[00:12:54] It's blue headed Vireo.

[00:13:29] Kind of sweeter sounding Vireo.

[00:13:34] I'm hearing a distant dark eyed junko.

[00:15:05] The road's pretty far from here but the sound really carries up the valley.

[00:15:10] Might be the first car of the day I've heard.

[00:15:16] Oh, might have a pine warbler up ahead I think.

[00:15:32] No, that is dark eyed junko.

[00:15:54] Doesn't have the fade in fade out quality.

[00:15:59] And no pines here.

[00:16:01] So much variability even just within the junko.

[00:16:11] Black with a green warbler.

[00:17:01] Might be hearing an indigo bunting, not sure.

[00:17:04] A lot of blue jays.

[00:17:06] Yeah, there's an indigo bunting up ahead.

[00:18:04] So I've set down a recorder near that dark eyed junko.

[00:18:08] Hopefully I capture a bit from it.

[00:18:15] I'm heading up this trail called Deerlick.

[00:18:18] Well, a long creek called Deerlick Creek.

[00:18:21] I don't know if this trail has a name.

[00:18:26] It's probably Deerlick Trail.

[00:18:29] It spins off a road named that.

[00:18:32] Basically a continuation of said road.

[00:18:38] But closed to vehicles.

[00:18:41] Here we go, indigo bunting.

[00:19:27] Abbreviated song.

[00:19:40] It's July 17th.

[00:19:53] We may have hit the end of season for indigo buntings in this region.

[00:20:00] Doing their full song.

[00:20:05] Seems to be doing a partial.

[00:20:09] Oh, that's the mewing of a yellow-bellied sapsucker.

[00:20:50] There we go.

[00:20:53] I see the bunting now.

[00:21:00] A lot of nut hatches vocalizing.

[00:21:02] White breast.

[00:21:23] Some cedar waxwings here too.

[00:21:25] Very high pitched though.

[00:21:28] You might not hear them, but they're very high pitched whine.

[00:21:31] Black-eyed chickadees.

[00:21:52] Trees here are quite tall.

[00:21:54] Much taller than I'm used to seeing.

[00:21:57] Probably an extra 10-15% taller.

[00:22:19] This is part of the trail's not seen maintenance in a while.

[00:22:22] Some downed trees.

[00:22:24] A lot of the trails in Allegheny are really just logging roads and other access roads.

[00:22:37] They just have gates in front of them.

[00:22:40] And so they're actually very hikeable.

[00:22:44] This one though.

[00:22:47] This one's different.

[00:22:50] It's very grassy and rocky and muddy at the start.

[00:22:55] And it's turning into a real trail now.

[00:23:07] More road.

[00:23:09] I think I just had a flicker fly off.

[00:23:28] A song sparrow.

[00:23:31] So this might be the wetland that was on the map.

[00:23:40] There's not actually a lot of wetland here.

[00:23:46] It's mostly just creek flowing through a depression in the land.

[00:23:53] So I'd imagine another time of year this might be pooled full of water.

[00:23:56] Right now it's just probably a floodplain.

[00:24:01] A very small one.

[00:24:03] Blue jay.

[00:24:33] Song sparrow doing kind of a tweet there.

[00:24:38] So all my hikes here haven't really seen many openings.

[00:24:48] This is one of them.

[00:24:51] And I haven't seen many song sparrows and this is one of two.

[00:24:54] This distant pilliard woodpecker.

[00:25:01] You can really hear the water flowing here though.

[00:25:51] Blue jay.

[00:26:03] Some distant pilliard woodpecker drumming.

[00:26:05] The sun is just now coming over the trees.

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