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Spring 2003
Hannah Suthers
Migration this spring seemed trickle-through so that I
was concerned about whether the numbers were way down. Large influxes
of species with one or only a few individuals occured at Featherbed
Lane on 30 April with 12 new species, and 2 May with 8 new species.
Highlights were:
| Great Blue Heron | flyover 25 March |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | 11 March (JS) |
| Cooper's Hawk | 9 March (JS) |
| American Woodcock | 15 March & following |
| Great-horned Owl | hooting (again) 23 April |
| Eastern Screech Owl | calling 23 April, 18 May |
| Wild Turkey | throughout |
| Ruffed Grouse | encountered occasionally |
| Killdeer | 20-Mar |
| Pileated Woodpecker | 21 April, 4 May, 6 May, 8 May |
| Red-bellied Woodpeckers | courting 29 April |
| Red-headed Woodpecker | regular visitor at a Hopewell Sourlands feeder |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | female with brood patch mist netted 18 May |
| American Crow | with nesting material 26 March |
| Blue Jays | courting 29 April |
| Carolina Wren | nest under a rug draped over porch railings, 9 March (SS) |
| Barn Swallows | 2 pairs passing through 26 April, 4 pair residents arrived 5 May |
| Blue-gray Gnatcatchers | pair 28 April, family 18 May |
| Robin | hatched 20 April |
| Bicknell's Thrush and Gray-cheeked Thrush | banded together 25 May |
| Red-eyed Vireo | 2-bird chase on 7 May |
| Ovenbird | 2-bird chase on 19 May (they arrived 28 April) |
| Black-and-White | Warbler arrived 29 April, on territory regularly since |
| Baltimore Oriole | arrived 30 April, 2 males chasing a female 7 May. |
| Eastern Meadowlarks | in nearby hayfields 10 May |
| Bobolink | in nearby hayfields 11 May, two pairs seen in courtship flights 31 May |
| Rose-breasted Grosbeak | arrived 29 April, three males chasing a female 2 May |
| Fox Sparrow | 8 April (JS) |
| White-crowned Sparrow | 10-May |
Hannah Suthers (all of the above unless specified otherwise)
(JS) Janet Speck
(SS) Susan Sandifer
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