Yellow Warbler was singing from the neighborhood when I was getting ready to depart for Negri-Nepote despite threatening weather and a day's worth of rain headed up on the southerly winds. It didn't quite make it to my yard list or my year list, since I never saw it and it didn't come quite close enough.
Instead, in heavy cloud and beginning drizzle I headed out to Negri-Nepote Grasslands (Franklin Twp) to check for shorebirds in the small pond there. Field Sparrow, Chipping Sparrow, Eastern Towhee, House Wren and Common Yellowthroat were all singing. Along with four Mallard males in the pond were four breeding plumage Greater Yellowlegs, a nice find, and the real prize was a Pectoral Sandpiper at the back of the pond. No Wilson's Snipe, recently reported here, but I don't usually see Pectoral until the fall. As the rain started to fall I retreated to snag my first seen Common Yellowthroat for spring migration, close to the parking lot.
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