Spring Comes to Belleplain

Quick post on Week 5 in Belleplain. . . and a question to ponder: Is April the new May?

 [Summer Tanager was in in Belleplain Sunday, or at least this one was, the lone SUTA I saw or heard. Frank's Road, singing away. A Scarlet Tanager sang nearby as well.]

[Spicebush Swallowtail and Flowering Dogwood. Gotta fly, more thoughts and photos later this week.]

Location: Belleplain State Forest
Observation date: 5/1/11
Notes: 7:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m. 13.5 miles. mostly clear, temp 46 to 60 degrees, light wind. Gray Treefrog calling (2), roadkill green snake. Spicebush Swallowtail, Horace's Duskywing.
Number of species: 58

Canada Goose 4
Wild Turkey 1
Black Vulture 4
Turkey Vulture 2
Broad-winged Hawk 1 calling repeatedly and circling cedar bridge road
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Killdeer 2
Laughing Gull 50
Herring Gull 10
Mourning Dove 3
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2 low spot cedar bridge
Red-bellied Woodpecker 3
Downy Woodpecker 1
Hairy Woodpecker 1 drumming Tom Field Road
Northern Flicker 2
Acadian Flycatcher 6Eastern Phoebe 2
Great Crested Flycatcher 15
Eastern Kingbird 1
White-eyed Vireo 10
Blue-headed Vireo 1
Red-eyed Vireo 20
Blue Jay 2
Fish Crow 1
Carolina Chickadee 10
Tufted Titmouse 25
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 35
Wood Thrush 29 clicked, but singing mostly shut down after 8:00 a.m.
American Robin 6
Gray Catbird 6
Brown Thrasher 2
Blue-winged Warbler 1
Northern Parula 1Yellow Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 10
Black-throated Green Warbler 2Yellow-throated Warbler 12
Pine Warbler 30
Prairie Warbler 5
Black-and-white Warbler 24 clicked
American Redstart 2 Sunset Bridge
Prothonotary Warbler 1 Sunset Bridge
Worm-eating Warbler 22 clicked
Ovenbird 93 clicked
Northern Waterthrush 1
Louisiana Waterthrush 3 New birds?
Common Yellowthroat 2
Hooded Warbler 6Eastern Towhee 10
Chipping Sparrow 10
Summer Tanager 1 Frank's Road
Scarlet Tanager 6Northern Cardinal 5
Common Grackle 5
Brown-headed Cowbird 20
Orchard Oriole 1
American Goldfinch 10