Fallingwater

After a splendid banding morning with a rrrreally busy first round (with a 120 birds) and 260+ birds caught (totals below) in total we went to the great architectural building Fallingwater. This is a real must when you're visiting Pennsylvania!

I cite:

''FALLINGWATER''

''Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), this house was built in 1936 as a family retreat for Pittsburgh businessman Edgar J. Kaufmann. Widely admired for its design, it is dramatically cantilevered over a waterfall: it exemplifies Wright's desire to join architecture with nature. Edgar Kaufmann jr. presented the house to the Western Pennsylvanian Conservancy in 1963.''

We did a tour through the house, which is now called a museum. It was a great tour. Normally I am not really into doing cultural things but this architectural building even impressed me!

Fallingwater. As the name reveals: it is built on a waterfall!

After the tour we also went to see the Ohiopyle Waterfalls. They're not like the Niagara Falls but still worth visiting.

The banding totals for this morning were:

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 -

Eastern Phoebe 3 -

Blue-headed Vireo 1 -

Black-capped Chickadee 1 -

Brown Creeper 1 -

Winter Wren 5 -

Golden-crowned Kinglet 1 -

Ruby-crowned Kinglet 14 -

Gray-cheeked Thrush 1 -

Swainson's Thrush 4 -

Hermit Thrush 7 -

Gray Catbird 3 -

Tennessee Warbler 2 -

Orange-crowned Warbler 1 -

Nashville Warbler 9 -

Yellow-rumped Warbler 97 , just short of a hundred!

Black-throated Green Warbler 1 - a late one

Blackpoll Warbler 3 -

Ovenbird 1 -

Eastern Towhee 4 -

Chipping Sparrow 1 -

Field Sparrow 1 -

Song Sparrow 9 -

Lincoln's Sparrow 1 -

Swamp Sparrow 7 -

White-throated Sparrow 17 -

Dark-eyed Junco 7 -

Northern Cardinal 1 -

American Goldfinch 6 -

Total 210, 29 species!

Happy with a finger-loving Cardinal...

First round... included about 40 Yellow-rumps in just a couple of nets.