
Black Vulture-There have been 2 Black Vultures soaring about Paynetown lately.
I hadn't taken much of a hike in Paynetown SRA this spring so I headed that way. I was hoping for warblers but the best birds turned out to be vireos. I was able to see my first Red-eyed and Yellow-throated Vireos of the year. I then drove across the causeway to Cutright SRA. There weren't too many birds but I was able to watch my first Eastern Kingbird of the year.

Northern Flicker-A common Indiana woodpecker, most are much more skittish than this.
I decided to go looking for rails at this point. The best area for rails in the area are two large wetlands at the end of Friendship Road. I had no luck on the rails but I was able to find a LeConte's Sparrow. I had never had one of these sparrows in Indiana during spring migration and it was my first ever for Monroe County.
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