Today, from about 9:00am to 11:30am, I spent time wandering around the Hawthorn Orchard in search of migrants. The wind made it difficult to locate individuals, but I managed to see and hear a few birds. Below are the details of what was there this morning:
1 Belted Kingfisher (flyover) 1 YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER (in mid-NW section of the Hawthorn Orchard - its soft "chew-wee" calls alerted me to its presence; aside from the other notes on this bird in my previous message, this bird had a very broad and pale lower mandible and generally a much more yellowish cast to the belly and breast feathers, as compared to the Least Flycatchers) 8-9+ LEAST FLYCATCHERS (seemed to be everywhere; quite vocal, giving very frequent "whit" notes and chasing each other around; obvious white wingbars and noticeable eyerings) 1 Great Crested Flycatcher 2 Warbling Vireos 1 Red-eyed Vireo 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch (in the middle of the H.O.) 3-4 House Wrens 3-4 Ruby-crowned Kinglets 1 Eastern Bluebird 5-6 American Robins (Zero other thrushes!) 10-12 Gray Catbirds 1 Northern Mockingbird 10-12 European Starlings 9-10 Cedar Waxwings 3-4 TENNESSEE WARBLERS (some sporadic singers, although, most activity was near tall Oak in NW corner with 2-3 birds giving soft "seet" notes - at least one female and one male seen well here; another singer in mid-West side, also seen well) 1 Nashville Warbler (singing SW of H.O.) 1 Northern Parula (singing mid-West side) 10-12 Yellow Warblers 3-4 Chestnut-sided Warblers 6-8 Magnolia Warblers 3-4 Yellow-rumped Warblers 1 BAY-BREASTED WARBLER (male, seen briefly in mid-NW corner, near Yellow-bellied Flycatcher; non-vocal) 2 American Redstarts 4-5 Common Yellowthroats 1 WILSON'S WARBLER (initially in SW portion of H.O., then relocated to the South of the H.O., by gravel path leading from EIRW up to playing field; singing sporadically) 1 Scarlet Tanager 4-5 Song Sparrows 2-3 White-throated Sparrows 6-8 Northern Cardinals 1-2 Indigo Buntings (flight notes in NE corner of H.O.) 6-8 Red-winged Blackbirds 6-8 Common Grackles 3-4 Baltimore Orioles 1 House Finch (flyover) 6-8 American Goldfinches 3-4 House Sparrows Good birding! Sincerely, Chris T-H -- Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes TARU Product Line Manager and Field Applications Engineer Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850 W: 607-254-2418 M: 607-351-5740 F: 607-254-1132 http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp -- 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/ --
