Chris, Hopefully it is a cyclical thing. One of our best spots in Broome Co King Street Town of Barker has had more migrants than I have seen in several years. Diversity and numbers are up for most warblers and other neotropical migrants this year. I also have noticed in a few other spots in the county that there seems to be more neotropical migrants. I went to Cascade Valley SF and pretty much everywhere there were ovenbirds and red-eyed vireos. The numbers of blackburnian and magnolia warblers are up and so are black throated green and canada warblers. I had 12 least flycatchers along this road which is well above previous years. Our Hawthorne area in Upper Lisle also has been fairly quiet. But the breeders in that area are in decent numbers. Its been a great year down here for Bay-breasted and Cape May Warblers.
Dave Dave On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 10:40 AM Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes < c...@cornell.edu> wrote: > Thanks to Diane Morton, Ken Kemphues, and Paul Anderson for co-leading the > Cayuga Bird Club field trip to the Hawthorn Orchard this morning. Another > relatively quiet morning, despite favorable overnight conditions. There > were many high flying migrating warblers throughout the morning. > > Please see my thoughts on Tortricidae moth larvae, below. > > Good birding! > > Sincerely, > Chris T-H > > > Hawthorn Orchard and East Ithaca Rec. Way, Tompkins, New York, US > > May 19, 2019 6:15 AM - 10:23 AM > > Protocol: Traveling > > 1.0 mile(s) > > Comments: Repeat of Cayuga Bird Club field trip to the Hawthorn > Orchard, in the hopes of better migrants stopping in to forage. > > > > There is very little evidence of leafroller moth larvae (Tortricidae) > being pervasive throughout the Hawthorn Orchard this year. Most hawthorn > trees and leaves appear quite healthy and undamaged. > > > > The significantly reduced findings of many warblers or vireos actively > foraging in or making use of the hawthorns as a good food source, supports > the idea and observation that the neotropical migrants are primarily > targeting this location for the periodic abundance of food. The occurrence > of leafroller moth larvae may be a biennial event or at least having some > cyclical nature—hopefully the notable lack of larvae this year is not > another example of the mass die-off of our insects. > > > > 56 species (+1 other taxa) > > > > Canada Goose 2 > > Mallard 1 > > Mourning Dove 5 > > Black-billed Cuckoo 1 Seen poorly by most, and in flight, in trees > near large square retention pond to West of South rugby ball field. > > Chimney Swift 1 > > Killdeer 1 > > Ring-billed Gull 1 > > Turkey Vulture 2 > > Osprey 1 > > Cooper's Hawk 1 Imm. > > Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 > > Downy Woodpecker 1 > > Hairy Woodpecker 1 > > Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 > > Alder Flycatcher 1 Heard Pip and Reer notes heard well, near large > square retention pond, West of South rugby ball field. > > Least Flycatcher 2 > > Great Crested Flycatcher 1 > > Eastern Kingbird 1 > > Warbling Vireo 2 > > Red-eyed Vireo 7 Mostly foraging and singing in oaks along ravine, > especially in NW corner clearing. > > Blue Jay 54 Mostly low flying migrating flocks. > > American Crow 1 > > Tree Swallow 2 > > Barn Swallow 7 > > Black-capped Chickadee 4 > > White-breasted Nuthatch 1 > > House Wren 2 > > Carolina Wren 2 > > Veery 1 > > Wood Thrush 4 > > American Robin 13 > > Gray Catbird 15 > > European Starling 12 > > Cedar Waxwing 4 > > House Finch 1 > > Purple Finch 2 > > American Goldfinch 5 > > Savannah Sparrow 1 > > Song Sparrow 10 > > Eastern Meadowlark 1 > > Baltimore Oriole 11 > > Red-winged Blackbird 12 > > Brown-headed Cowbird 8 > > Common Grackle 4 > > Tennessee Warbler 4 > > Nashville Warbler 1 Singing in oaks just South of the NW corner > clearing. > > Common Yellowthroat 2 > > American Redstart 2 > > Cape May Warbler 1 Heard flight notes only > > Bay-breasted Warbler 2 Two different adults. Migrating/foraging > through oaks and maples along North ravine. > > Yellow Warbler 2 > > Blackpoll Warbler 1 One bird singing early AM from inside Hawthorn > Orchard. > > warbler sp. (Parulidae sp.) 15 Continuous high flyover migrants and > a couple of fast moving warbler flocks, through tops of oaks. > > Scarlet Tanager 6 Daytime migrating birds. Perch-sing-fly, > continuing in general ENE direction. > > Northern Cardinal 5 > > Indigo Bunting 3 Adult male seen in Northwest corner clearing; > several buzzy flight notes heard from other migrants. > > House Sparrow 6 > > > > View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S56485576 > > > > This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 ( > https://ebird.org/home) > > -- > > 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/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ > > -- -- 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/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
