This saturday’s bike ride was just up the road from me on Sorber Mountain. I started at Stull Road and followed my way up the mountain. The highlights included an Acadian that was my first bird of the day that was calling as I was taking my bike off the rack and a pair of Hooded Warblers— my favorite warbler. I must have been standing right near their nest because both sexes were chipping at me.

The list follows:
Common Merganser 10
Great Blue Heron 1
Turkey Vulture 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Belted Kingfisher 1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 4
Northern Flicker 1
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 2
Acadian Flycatcher 1
Least Flycatcher 1
Eastern Phoebe 2
Empidonax species 1
Blue-headed Vireo 3
Red-eyed Vireo 2
Tree Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 2
Black-capped Chickadee 6
Veery 4
Wood Thrush 1
Gray Catbird 4
Cedar Waxwing 6
Black-throated Blue Warbler 3
Black-throated Green Warbler 6
Blackburnian Warbler 3
Black-and-white Warbler 6
American Redstart 3
Ovenbird 3
Common Yellowthroat 4
Hooded Warbler 3
Chipping Sparrow 2
Field Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 1
Dark-eyed Junco 6
Scarlet Tanager 2
Northern Cardinal 2
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 2
Indigo Bunting 1
Brown-headed Cowbird 2
American Goldfinch 5
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sent via birdcountr

Later in the day I went to see if I could take some more photographs of the Black-bellied Whistling Ducks. Unfortunately there was a fisherman right at the island and they weren’t there. But I do know they were seen this weekend. I did grab a photo of this Great Blue Heron with a mighty big fish. I also witnessed a Great Blue Heron act like a kingfisher. It was flying over the canals when all of a sudden it swooped into the water and caught a fish. It was pretty wild!

Today my daughter and I were going to take a Father’s Day bike ride at Lehigh Gorge. It didn’t happen since on the way up 115 to the turnpike my car dropped its clutch. I was excited because I’m pretty sure I’d find one of my target warblers for the ride: Yellow-throated, Kentucky, or Mourning. Guess I won’t know until next weekend.