As others have reported, birds seem to be moving through in good numbers today. This morning, there were MAGNOLIA WARBLER, NASHVILLE WARBLER, and COMMON YELLOWTHROAT singing in the back yard and 2 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS. In the afternoon, just as the first gusty storm was hitting, there were 10 YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS in the newly leafing locust, and with them were at least 3 CAPE MAY WARBLERS - one very bright and singing briefly. As it started to rain, one of the Cape Mays took a bath in the treetop by rubbing it's body against some new wet maple leaves and then shaking off the water - repeating several times. Not sure I've seen this bathing behavior before. With this flock also was a fast moving vireo that I could only see from below and behind - very bright yellow on the flanks, meeting across the belly, and with wing bars - I will have to call this a late migrant Blue-headed Vireo, but it appeared smaller and "quicker" to me and I cannot rule out a rarer species such as White-eyed or even Bell's Vireo. I will keep an eye our for it again.
All for now. KEN ********************************************** Ken Rosenberg Director of Conservation Science Cornell Lab of Ornithology Ithaca NY 14850 Phone: 607-254-2412 cell: 607-342-4594 [email protected] www.birds.cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
