Mostly quiet start to the morning, then encountered tight flock along middle part of North edge in Hawthorn Orchard (East Hill of Ithaca, accessible behind and to West of Reis Tennis Center and the Oxley Equestrian Center on Pine Tree Road). Drizzling and calm in the AM, then brief WSW winds shifting to NW by late AM.
Highlights: briefly singing MOURNING WARBLER, singing and calling Swainson's Thrush, vociferously singing Tennessee Warblers, plus Northern Parulas and Chestnut-sided Warblers, among others. Good birding! Sincerely, Chris T-H May 11, 2013 Hawthorn Orchard Traveling 1 miles 216 Minutes Observers: 1 All birds reported? Yes Comments: Drizzly morning and overcast. Calm then becoming breezy WSW then NW winds. Most warblers in North middle section of Hawthorn Orchard. 8 Canada Goose -- 3 ad, 5 goslings 1 Green Heron 2 Turkey Vulture 1 Osprey 2 Cooper's Hawk 1 Broad-winged Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk (Eastern) 1 Ring-billed Gull 3 Mourning Dove 1 Chimney Swift 2 Downy Woodpecker 2 Hairy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker 1 Least Flycatcher 2 Great Crested Flycatcher 1 Blue-headed Vireo 14 Blue Jay 7 American Crow 2 Common Raven -- One carrying food. Both being mobbed by crows. 3 Tree Swallow 5 Barn Swallow 3 Black-capped Chickadee 1 Tufted Titmouse 1 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Carolina Wren 2 House Wren 1 Swainson's Thrush -- Singing 7 American Robin 6 Gray Catbird 1 Brown Thrasher 8 European Starling 6 Tennessee Warbler -- Singing vociferously 4 Nashville Warbler 3 Northern Parula -- NE corner of HO 5 Yellow Warbler 4 Chestnut-sided Warbler 7 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Black-throated Green Warbler 1 Blackburnian Warbler 2 American Redstart 1 Mourning Warbler -- Singing in NE area of HO 6 Common Yellowthroat 2 Chipping Sparrow 7 Song Sparrow 10 White-throated Sparrow 9 Northern Cardinal 2 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 7 Red-winged Blackbird 8 Common Grackle 4 Brown-headed Cowbird 2 Baltimore Oriole 2 House Finch 6 American Goldfinch 3 House Sparrow Sent from my iPhone -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
