Another day of Birding in West Virginia

Birding with great success.

Welcome back to The Birder’s Way! I’m your host Caleb Shingleton. Before reading this post I would gladly appreciate it if you could, like, follow, and subscribe to my Substack.

I had a wonderful weekend of birding. I got a great bird count, with a total of 38 species. I even got a lifer Fox Sparrow (Passerella iliaca). I even got lots of species that are making their way north to breed in Canada for the summer. Some of those species include Golden-crowned Kinglet, Brown Creeper, and White-crowned Sparrow. The highlight of birding over last weekend was a beautiful Brown Thrasher that was singing a beautiful song. He would start singing and then stop, look around and listen for another response from a different Brown Thrasher. Such a majestic bird. I was amazed by the amount of Golden-crowned Kinglets that were in my area. The Brown Creepers always make me laugh. They are interesting little birds that are always creeping up and down trees. Even had a random female Wood Duck in my pond, hopefully they nest on my property this summer. I heard several Field Sparrows (Spizella pusilla) singing on the property. I was more than happy with the species I logged over the weekend. Overall my best audio recording of the weekend was the Brown Thrasher singing. I was able to get supper close to him while he was singing. Alright lets get to the good stuff, the photos and audio recordings.

Here's the media for the beautiful Brown Thrasher:

That's the photo I got.

Here's the audio for the Brown Thrasher:

Brown Thrasher Audio

Brown Creeper pictures:

Such a funny little bird.

Here's a bonus picture of a adult male American Robin carrying nesting material:

It was so cool seeing the first bird of the year gathering nesting material.

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That's all for today, until next time happy birding!

Written by, Caleb Shingelton.