[mou] Murphy Hanrehan warblers and Byllesby in a downpour...

[Chris Fagyal]

Birded Murphy early this morning and then went to Lake Byllesby and 
ended up getting drenched, muddy (I slid down a hill after slipping) and 
not seeing much there (rain was too hard to really see much), however I 
did get a few interesting things...

Murphy was generally quiet, but after 2.5 hours of work I ended up with 
several warblers, mostly in small waves of 6-8 birds of 2-3 species at a 
time:

Ovenbird (lots)
Blue-winged Warbler (lots)
Yellow Warbler (Many)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (many)
Blackpoll Warbler (3)
Golden-winged Warbler (1)
Cape May Warbler (1)
American Redstart (a few)
Mourning Warbler (1)
Palm Warbler (1)

Also had:

Bobolink (3)
Cedar Waxwing (7)
Gray Catbird (several)
Sedge Wren (1)
House Wren (several)
Field Sparrow (a few)
Fox Sparrow (2)

Lake Byllesby had:

Tennessee Warbler (1)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (many)
Yellow Warbler (a few)
Barn Swallow (Lots)
Bank Swallow (A few)
Northern Rough-winged Swallow (a few)
American White Pelican (lots)
Caspian Tern (7 flying over)
Northern Shoveler (lots)
Blue-winged Teal (lots)

Short-billed Dowitcher (2)
Lesser Yellowlegs (many)

The rains came before I could pick out much more, though someone who was 
there before me said he saw Semipalmated plovers, and dunlin amongst 
other things.  Had I known Steve Weston saw the Piping Plover there, i'd 
have waited to see if the rains would abate....have to return tomorrow I 
suppose.

On the way back I hit 140th...surprise surprise, it wasn't 
raining....but birds were few...

140th had:

Spotted Sandpiper (3)
Lesser Yellowlegs (1)
Loggerhead Shrike (1)