Five of us birded the south end of Hoffmaster State Park for a couple hours Saturday morning. There were a few flurries of activity at a sassafras tree beside the picnic pavilion parking lot. Swainson’s thrushes and several warbler species (including black-and-white, magnolia, and chestnut-sided) flitted around in its branches.
All told we found 19 bird species including four woodpeckers (flicker, downy, hairy and red-bellied), both nuthatches, and a rose-breasted grosbeak before calling it a day.
