American Redstart,Setophaga ruticilla.
April 17 to October 3. Regular migrant and summer resident. Black (1935) found it "common
in the larger ravines on the slope" at Winslow during summer, but never "on the north side."
At Devil's Den State Park, the birds are "common particularly in
the lower streamside trees" along Lee Creek (Tulsa Audubon Society: 100). A total of
11 singing birds were observed along Richland Creek near the Richland Creek campground in
Searcy County on May 19, 1984. The birds can also be found regularly in summer at the Steel
Creek camping area on the Buffalo River.
Swainson's Warbler,Limnothlypis swainsonii.
May 3 to July 29+; spring arrival and fall departure dates are poorly known. Migrant
and local summer resident in small numbers. The presence of adults still feeding
young on July 29, 1983, at Redding indicates that the birds remain in the region
after this date. In spring 1985 single singing birds were found in heavy bottomland
forest along the White River in Washington and Madison Counties in the first two
weeks of May, but not thereafter. The birds have been found during summer in a few
extensive canebrakes like the one at Buffalo Point on the Buffalo River and during
the 1980s in the floodplain forest at the Redding campground along the Mulberry River
near Cass. It has also been found in summer in the stands of cane or thickets of
maple trees in moist, upland slopes (Wheeler 1924, James 1974). Several were found
in cane below the Beaver Lake dam site in May 1988 and one remained until early July.