This morning, I birded for a short while with Melissa Groo, before doing more
exploration of the area alone. I ran into Jay McGowan for a bit, plus another
individual whose name I didn’t get.
Early on, there was a single Veery near the entrance by the softball field, and
part-way into the
Late yesterday, Todd Bittner (Director of the Cornell Botanical Gardens Natural
Areas) and I made a last-minute decision to meet up for birding at the Hawthorn
Orchard this morning. We birded the area for about 3-1/2 hours this morning.
Best birds, but not terribly rewarding, were two
Saturday morning (5/22), Scott Anthony and I birded the Hawthorn Orchard for
about 2-1/2 hours.
The best bird was probably the worst seen: an extremely distant Great Egret in
flight over the valley, headed South. It turns out this was a new species seen
from this location, which brings the
It was very quiet except for two warblers I saw and could not identify as they
hid in the foliage. I also heard two warblers one in the south eastern corner
shrubs sounded like a Wilson’s warbler I have recorded it over the roar of the
winds and the other was Magnolia Warbler. No Tennessee
There were at least 2 male and 1 female bobolinks just SW of the outdoor tennis
courts at hawthorn a little while ago. I saw one Tennessee and 1 chestnut sided
and I thought I heard a magnolia in the SW corner around the horse field. Also
a hummer
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Things were fairly quiet, but when I arrived at 8:15, the sun was out and
there were at least 6 TENNESSEE WARBLERS singing in the vicinity of the
northeast corner. Shortly after that, it clouded up and the Tennessees fell
silent for the most part.
In the middle of the orchard toward the
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Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Hawthorn Orchard this morning
Meena left for work just a bit too early: two minutes after she left I
had had my best ever encounter with a singing NORTHERN PARULA. It was on
the north side just a bit in from the path running along the gully.
Earlier, I also had two SCARLET TANAGERS, one flying overhead and one
swooping
