Mark Scheel, Tilden, and I went to the Tareyton/Rosehill intersection in northeast Ithaca on Friday morning to follow up on Jay's 7 AM report. By 7:55, the greatest bird activity seemed to be in Tareyton Park at the north end of Tareyton Drive, on the sunlit edge of the woods. Here we saw male and female CAPE MAY WARBLERS, three BLACKBURNIAN WARBLERS, at least one male MAGNOLIA WARBLER, a NASHVILLE WARBLER, and lots of Yellow-rumped Warblers.
Then as we were driving away, Tilden said, "What warbler has a gray back, a black cap, and a white face? I saw one in that flock, and it wasn't a chickadee." So I think we can safely conclude that there was a male BLACKPOLL WARBLER in there too. Finally, as we were driving away to school at 8:15, we saw Kevin McGowan and Ken Rosenberg closer to the south end of Tareyton Drive. Ken had just seen a BAY-BREASTED WARBLER, which we missed. We also heard a CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER close by. Mark Chao -- 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/ --
