[cayugabirds-l] OOB - Lawrence's Warbler

[Mike Powers]

Hi everyone,

This evening, while on the evening dog walk around our yard in Horseheads,
NY (Chemung County), I found a new bird for our yard list. I first
identified it as a Blue-winged Warbler from next door (they breed in the
young forest/old field edge behind our house), but it turned out to be a
very charismatic LAWRENCE'S WARBLER. I was able to grab a couple photos for
documentation, embedded into the eBird checklist below; I think you have to
click through to see the photos.  Alternately, you can see the photos here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/noflickster/14193893553/in/photostream/

I'm not sure how frequently they are reported in our area, the only other
one I've ever seen was over a decade ago in neighboring Steuben County, so
I'm assuming they are not too common. It was singing emphatically as it
moved around our yard, often prominently from treetop to treetop, hopefully
it's staking out a territory and seeking a mate (though I wish it was
singing a Golden-winged song, that would be a new yard bird, too).

Good birding,
Mike

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Mike Powers
Horseheads, NY


Prospect Hill - Home, Chemung, US-NY
May 12, 2014 5:41 PM - 6:14 PM
Protocol: Traveling
0.25 mile(s)
Comments:     <br />Submitted from BirdLog NA for iOS, version 1.7.1
26 species (+1 other taxa)

Mourning Dove  3
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1
Eastern Phoebe  1
Blue Jay  2
American Crow  4
Tree Swallow  2
Black-capped Chickadee  4
Tufted Titmouse  1
Red-breasted Nuthatch  2
House Wren  2
Veery  1
Wood Thrush  1
American Robin  4
Gray Catbird  3
European Starling  2
Ovenbird  3

LAWRENCE'S WARBLER (hybrid)  1
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/noflickster/13987138800";><img src="
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7377/13987138800_bb0c4e77ed.jpg"; /></a><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/noflickster/14193893553";><img src="
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7346/14193893553_8d6e8381ac.jpg"; /></a>

Common Yellowthroat  1
Yellow Warbler  1
Eastern Towhee  3
Chipping Sparrow  1
Song Sparrow  2
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)  1
Northern Cardinal  3
Red-winged Blackbird  4
Purple Finch  2
American Goldfinch  5

View this checklist online at
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S18364402

This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)

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