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After seeing a report about a Cerulean Warbler on the
NS-RBA, I visited the Halifax Public Gardens on Friday evening after
work, from 6:30 until 8:00 p.m. I intended to walk through the
whole gardens, but went first to the area around the goose enclosure
where I had seen the Indigo Buntings on 8 May. I found so much
activity there that I was reluctant to leave to search more
widely. I found four Indigo Buntings (two male, two female), at
least four Yellow-rumped Warblers (including the first female I have
seen this year), a Black-and-White Warbler, a Magnolia Warbler, a
Black-throated Green Warbler, and a Blackpoll Warbler. The last bird
I saw was an empid flycatcher lower down near the water. Most of
these birds were up high in the rapidly-leafing out trees, where they
were still touched by the late sunshine.
After I had been there awhile I realized Liz Doull was
viewing the same area from the far side of the stream. So we compared
notes, and watched together for some time. Liz had already visited
the place where Dennis had seen the Cerulean Warbler earlier, and
found nothing. There are more conifers in the southwest corner of
the Gardens, and it would have been pretty dark there in the evening.
The Indigo Buntings have been seen in the same place in the
Gardens for more than ten days now. Since there was a single record
of breeding by this species in the recent Atlas, I was wondering if
these might stay to breed. The two males were singing, but were not
behaving territorially and in fact were usually together in the same
tree. They were not interacting in any way with the females.
Directions:
The "goose enclosure" is in the northeast quadrant of the
Public Gardens, closest to the entrance gate at the corner of
Sackville and South Park streets (across from the CBC Radio
building). Freshwater Brook flows out from Griffin's Pond,
resurfacing and flowing down towards the main entrance gate at Spring
Garden and South Park streets. A portion of the banks on either side
of the stream is fenced off to form an enclosure, originally for
swans and now for a goose.
Patricia L. Chalmers
Halifax
At 02:15 PM 18/05/2012, David Currie wrote:
>
>Dennis Garratt just notified me and asked I post this. About 1:30 pm
>he had a female Cerulean Warbler, a Tennessee Warbler, magnolia,
>indigo buntings and some empid flycatchers at the Halifax Public
>Gardens. He offered his phone number should anyone want more
>specific directions.
>
>Dennis at:
>423-5263
>
>Dave
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