With George's permission, I have placed two of his images of the Northern Saw-whet Owl onto my 2011 Hawthorn Orchard Picasa Album. It turns out that this was quite the serendipitous sighting - George was in the right spot at the right time. The bird flew in and landed. He captured these stills. This was a life bird for George and a new addition to the species list for the Hawthorn Orchard. Thank you, George!
George's two pictures are here: https://picasaweb.google.com/cth4th/2011HawthornOrchardBirds#560888979311682 5298 https://picasaweb.google.com/cth4th/2011HawthornOrchardBirds#560888979443215 3298 Kind of wonder if this bird is breeding nearby. 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 From: bounce-30688422-3488...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-30688422-3488...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Chris Tessaglia-Hymes Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 11:11 AM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Hawthorn Orchard - 5/20/2011 - 21 Warblers - Very Active, Very Muddy I birded the Hawthorn Orchard today from about 6:30am to 9:30am, again, painful to pull myself away for work. Today, many birders were there enjoying what the Hawthorn Orchard had to offer for the day. Am I keeping a life "birder" list? Anyway, there was a rare sighting today among those that I ran into: Paul Hurtado, visiting from Ohio! Other birders included: Meena Haribal, George Chiu, Nancy Chen, Matt Medler (another rare sighting, for me), Jay McGowan, Kevin McGowan, Larry and Sara Jane Hymes, Paul Anderson, Tom Reimers, Mark Chao and Miyoko Chu, and a distant sighting of Kevin Ripka. I may have missed some birders, because they were moving all over the place in there. ;-) Onto the birds! The birding started out a little quiet, but I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything in the far Southern parts of the area (South of the South stream, West of the South ball field). I then entered the main portion of the Hawthorn Orchard, via the Southwest corner, working my way East (where I ran into Meena) and then North to the Northeast corner. Today, most of the birds in the Hawthorn Orchard were actually spread out along the East side and into the middle-Northern portions. The birds continued to concentrate themselves in the middle-Northern portion as the morning progressed. In general, it seemed that BLACKPOLL WARBLERS have now become dominant. TENNESSEE WARBLER are still quite present there, but slightly less-so than in recent days. HIGHLIGHT: Yesterday, George Chiu had a chance encounter with a NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL! George isn't on the List, so I'll roughly speak for him. There had been some mobbing activity in the middle-Northern portion of the Hawthorn Orchard. A bird flew over him and landed up on a bent-over hawthorn. He snapped a bunch of pictures and will get those to me. Very nice find, George! Here is a basic run-down of what was there today: 1 SOLITARY SANDPIPER (flyover - "peeet-weeet-weeet") 1 YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO (one full song, SW corner, early) 2 Hairy Woodpeckers 1 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee (working along edge of South horse jumping field, near stream) 2 Least Flycatchers 1 Eastern Phoebe 1 Great Crested Flycatcher 1 Yellow-throated Vireo (Larry and Sara Jane Hymes - Northeast, on way in) 2 Warbling Vireos 1 PHILADELPHIA VIREO (middle-Northern portion) 6-8 Red-eyed Vireos 4-5 Blue Jays 3 American Crows 5-6 Barn Swallows 4-6 Black-capped Chickadees 1 White-breasted Nuthatch 2 House Wrens 1 Wood Thrush 10-12+ American Robins 10-12 Gray Catbirds (reduced numbers from yesterday) 3-4 European Starlings 10-12 Cedar Waxwings 1 Blue-winged Warbler (along hedgerow of stream at Southeast corner of the horse jumping field, South of the Hawthorn Orchard) 20-25+ TENNESSEE WARBLERS 1 Nashville Warbler 2 NORTHERN PARULAS (1 male NW corner, 1 female SE corner) 12-14 Yellow Warblers 12-14+ Chestnut-sided Warblers 12-14 Magnolia Warblers 2 Black-throated Blue Warblers (1 male singing NW corner, 1 female SE corner) 2 Black-throated Green Warblers 4-5 BLACKBURNIAN WARBLERS 5-6 BAY-BREASTED WARBLERS 25-30+ BLACKPOLL WARBLERS 1 Black-and-white Warbler (one song, middle-Southern portion) 6-8+ American Redstarts (more 1st year males, now) 1 Ovenbird (NE section) 1 Northern Waterthrush (middle) 1 MOURNING WARBLER (infrequently singing, middle-NW section) 15+ Common Yellowthroats 1 HOODED WARBLER (Jay McGowan - heard) 1 WILSON'S WARBLER (song - middle, working East) 1-2 CANADA WARBLERS (middle-Northern portion) 3-4 Scarlet Tanagers (singers, passing through) 1 Chipping Sparrow 1 Field Sparrow 6-8 Song Sparrows 8-10 Northern Cardinals 2-3 Rose-breasted Grosbeaks 3-4 Indigo Buntings 1 BOBOLINK (low, singing display flight between North and South ball fields, flew South) 15+ Red-winged Blackbirds 1 Eastern Meadowlark (distant, heard, South of South ball field) 5+ Common Grackles 2-3 Brown-headed Cowbirds 6-8 Baltimore Orioles 4-6 American Goldfinches 2-3 House Sparrows Good birding! Sincerely, Chris T-H -- Christopher T. 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