The Park Preserve was cold and quiet this morning, but I found a couple of pockets of birds. The first corner/overlook area was productive as always, with at least four HERMIT THRUSHES (present every time I have been there since the summer) and a beautiful SWAINSON'S THRUSH giving flight calls. At the other end of the preserve, essentially the northwest corner, I found a flock of warblers that included Blackpoll, Black-throated Green, Magnolia, and a late PRAIRIE WARBLER (the latest for Tompkins County in eBird, as far as I can tell).
A quick walk around the Wilson Trail at Sapsucker Woods yielded large numbers of TENNESSEE WARBLERS, most in splendid color with beautiful green upperparts and yellow underparts, as well as several Nashville and Magnolia warblers. At the Sherwood Platform, a WINTER WREN that has been hanging around there for several days put on a great show, singing softly for a while and then walking out onto the bench for good looks. A Ruby-crowned Kinglet sang a few times too, and several White-throated Sparrows were also present. -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology [email protected] -- 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/ --
