Episode 166: Hooded Warbler at the Artesian Seep

Recorded on April 20, 2026 at the bluff at the old river town of Belmont where artesian springs flow from the hills and meet up with Little Tallahatchie River bottom, this is the sound of a spring morning at the peak of warbler migration. As fog lifts and air warms, the woods fill with a diversity of birdsong with twenty-nine species heard, including Hooded Warbler, Red-eyed Vireo, Red-headed Woodpecker, Tufted Titmouse, Common Yellowthroat, Downy Woodpecker, Summer Tanager, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Prothonotary Warbler, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Carolina Chickadee, Carolina Wren, White-eyed Vireo, Tennessee Warbler, Northern Parula, Swainson’s Warbler, Northern Cardinal, Yellow-throated Warbler, Scarlet Tanager, Indigo Bunting, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Gray Catbird, Wood Thrush, Kentucky Warbler, American Crow, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Acadian Flycatcher, Rose-breasted Grosbeak and Louisiana Waterthrush, along with the banjo-string-plucking glunk sound of a Green Frog calling from the sedges at the edge of the seep.