Latest Dearborn Birds                   

21 July:  Just after the big wind storm, a Northern Waterthrush strolled through the damage in the Craves backyard.

15 July:  Since 10 July, a fourth Least Sandpiper has joined the others at Greenfield Village, and so has a Solitary Sandpiper.

3 July: Jim Fowler rescued a Gray Catbird from inside the Henry Ford Museum at Greenfield Village.  It was a bird RRBO banded as a hatching year bird on 19 Sep  95.  It had never been recaptured.  Jim released it, minus only a few head feathers.

June 1998:

30 June:  Three Least Sandpipers at Greenfield Village (fall migration has begun!)

19 June: A female and two juvenile Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers were in a west Dearborn yard today, apparently having nested nearby.  This is quite southerly for them and a new Wayne Co. record.

10 June: Another late warbler, this time a Bay-breasted, was heard then located in the Craves yard this morning.  Previous late date: 31 May.

8 June: A lovely male singing Black-throated Green Warbler was seen today, beating our previous late date by four days. Two Red-headed Woodpeckers were seen at the TPC Golf Course.

I also banded another 6 new Red-winged Blackbirds (one was a fledgling), bringing our year total to 29.  Not an astounding number, until you consider that we had only banded 25 total since 1992 (all seasons combined). This year there is a nesting colony in an old field, and apparently some nesting in the woods or meadow bordering the lake!

3 June: Today a Swainson's Thrush was getting late, and  a Brown Creeper was in the same area where they nested last year.  There were two widely separated Yellow-billed Cuckoos calling, one in the same area where I suspect they nested last year as well.

2 June: A Yellow-bellied Flycatcher in my Dearborn yard tied the late date.

1 June: 5 young woodcock were flushed in the woods near the Community Organic Garden, where they've been seen all spring.