S6E20 - Dawn Hike at Deer Lick Run, Part 4

[00:00:54] I'm continuing my early morning hike along Deerlick Run and am now heading back downstream towards my campsite. It's been just over an hour since sunrise, and the dawn chorus is still going strong. My name is Rob and this is Songbirding. What's the Nuthatches today? It's a Red-Eyed Vireo.

[00:03:53] White-Bressed Nuthatch. I think there's a Distant Wood Thrush. It's a Winteran. They have a very long song. Winterans are really tiny little species. They can really pump out a lot of song, really lengthy and loud one. Very vocal white-breast Nuthatches. And there's a Magnolia Warbler up ahead.

[00:06:48] A lot of Hemlock Trees in this part. Oh, I've got a tiny Magnolia Warbler right in front of me. Yellow in the chest and throughout with black stripes coming off it. They have kind of a black mask and a gray cap to the head. There he is.

[00:07:56] A little bit of white to the wings. Downy Woodpecker to the right. A lot of white-breast Nuthatches in the background. I see a female Magnolia Warbler now too. She's the one making the other sounds. A little chit-chit, chit-chit. It's also possible to do though.

[00:08:55] If I wasn't carrying the microphone, these would be some very easy photos. Males collecting bugs from a lot of the lower trees here. Crows, Jays, Nuthatches, Magnolia Warbler, Winter Wren. Quite a lot going on right now.

[00:11:29] It's a Dark-Eyed Junko here now too. This one is carrying something in its mouth. I think it's a twig or grass. Kind of a straw shape. A little bit of white to the head. A little bit of gray to the tail.

[00:12:58] A little bit of gray to the tail. I think it was only an hour ago that I walked through here. And it's already a new spiderweb. It's only complete to be in my way. I don't know how that happens. Because I somehow missed it last time. Hmm.

[00:15:50] Sounds almost like a swamp sparrow up ahead. I feel like it's going to be another Dark-Eyed Junko. This is almost certainly Dark-Eyed Junko just from habitat alone. Yeah, as I get closer I can hear. It's definitely not a swamp sparrow.

[00:16:37] From a distance you can make that mistake very easily. A Red-Eyed Vireo up ahead. Here's our Dark-Eyed Junko. It's a Black-Blooded Green Warbler. It's got two Dark-Eyed Junkos communicating to each other. Presumably. A couple different territories. I was hearing a distant Black-Blooded Warbler.

[00:20:47] So this Junko is jumping from bow to bow on a Hemlock tree. One that hasn't broken through the canopy fully yet. It's a younger, smaller Hemlock. Tallest trees in this part seem to be all poplars. Songbirding, the Allegheny National Forest, is a Songbirding Studios production

[00:25:33] and was recorded, engineered, narrated and created by me, Rob Porter, with cover art and logo design by Lauren Hilton and Creative Commons music from Jason Shaw.