Today was rainy and windy with a temperature around 50 degrees and a windchill of 39. Yes, it's May 31 and we are in north-central Pennsylvania.
We wrapped up our north woods outing in grasslands and emerging forests that once were coal strip mines near Knox, PA. This Henslow's Sparrow, a resident of the grasslands, became lifer #559.
Finding warblers in this area is a matter of finding the right habitat. Black-throated Green Warblers prefer stands of hemlock...
... as does the Magnolia Warbler.
Others, such as the Chestnut-sided Warbler prefer emerging forests where areas were logged within the past few years and saplings are now starting to grow.
The same can be said for the Black-throated Blue Warbler.
The Yellow Warbler likes marshes and wetland fields.
Tomorrow, it's back to Key West to play with Henry and OG for a couple of days and get the bags re-packed for California where we might just hit 500 species for the year.
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