On Thursday afternoon, I had a free hour in the East Hill area. I spent this time on the East Ithaca Recreation Way (Honness Lane to Mitchell Street) and in the Hawthorn Orchard. I found two House Wrens, a Cooper's Hawk terrorizing a flock of starlings, and numerous members of more common species, but nothing new or unusual.
I'm posting to report that the hawthorns in the northern half are already copiously blooming. I'd say that about one-third of the blossoms were already wide open, and the other two-thirds are big and white and ready to pop. Mark Chao -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
