Josh Covill's Birding Blog: Warblers

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Tennessee Warbler and a Dusky Grouse moment

Friday, my friends and I went to look around Glacier National Park for fun. We drove up to where Avalanche Creek meets McDonald Creek, and believe it or not....I got to see a TENNESSEE WARBLER!!! It was singing a shortened version of its song, very similar to a Wilson's Warbler which I thought I was looking for!

This is Dan Casey's AMAZING digiscoped shot of the Tennessee at Tally Lake, but this is about the SAME view I had at the one in the park!

Now, several hours later, my friends and I drove up a back round in Big Mountain and we found a displaying DUSKY GROUSE! That was soooo coool to see him display and make that deep booming noise!!

What a great day of birds!!

Tally Lake Warbler Weekend!!!

The "Tally Lake WARBLER Weekend" 3rd annual camping trip was this June 11, 12, 13th this year.

The local Audubon reserves a section of the campground and we all just hang out and bird leisurely or vigorously depending on when you wake up and what you wanna see.

I was in Lewistown for half of the weekend, and I got to the campground around 8pm Saturday. By then, this is how much birding was going on at the moment...

Not bad! That evening I did hear a Red-eyed Vireo, which was a yearbird. Also, they had a singing TENNESSEE WARBLER all day and I got to hear it sing many times but we didn't see it :( maybe another time I will get a good look at one. I was pretty bummed but that wouldn't last for long....

the Dinner stove....yummy!