Are Palms starting to breed much farther south than they have historically?


 

I photographed a singing male Palm Warbler again yesterday at Cedar Brook
Farm natural area in Bradford, NH.  While I have not confirmed nesting, this
bird is considerably south of the Effingham pair and in a "new" location.
The site is near East Washington directly west of Concord.  If anyone wants
to investigate and attempt to determine if the bird might have nested I can
describe where I saw it.

 

Cedar Brook seems to be a little-visited spot with a great variety of
habitats in a small area:  wetlands of all sorts, forest, and dry grassy
fields.  Yesterday morning in addition to the Palm I photographed
Blackburnian, B&W, BTBlue, Redstart, Chestnut-sided, Common Yellowthroat,
and Yellow Warblers, Scarlet Tanager, Cedar Waxwing, Red-eyed Vireo, Eastern
Phoebe, Alder Flycatcher, Tree Swallows, Song and Swamp Sparrows, Mourning
Dove, and Eastern Towhee.  I saw and heard many other species.

 

Photos of this Palm and a few other species from yesterday are at:

 

http://mysite.verizon.net/vzes1eww/jimblockphotography/id18.html

 

Jim Block

Etna, NH


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