Alberto Lopez and I headed out to a few local spots around Ithaca to
find him some migrant warblers, as it's his first spring in North
America and he finally has a chance to see them in breeding plumage.
We managed to find 13 species of warblers, many of which have been
listed by others already this morning. Highlights were as follows:
Stewart Park and Jetty Woods, 6.30am: BONAPARTE'S GULL, SPOTTED
SANDPIPER, YELLOW, YELLOW-RUMPED and CAERULEAN WARBLERS (the latter
flew from Renwick over to Jetty Woods), BLUE-GREY GNATCATCHERS, LEAST
FLYCATCHER, GREY CATBIRD, and large numbers of AMERICAN REDSTARTS and
WARBLING VIREOS.
Sapsucker Woods, 8.00am: BLUE-HEADED VIREO, PALM, YELLOW, YELLOW-
RUMPED and BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLERS, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT,
NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, WOOD THRUSH, HOUSE WRENS.
Hammond Hill State Forest, 9.30am: ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK,
BLACKBURNIAN, CAPE MAY, YELLOW-RUMPED, BLACK-AND-WHITE, BLACK-
THROATED BLUE and BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLERS, and OVENBIRDS.
We finished the morning searching Monkey Run in vain for Chris Wood's
Golden-winged Warbler, but the bird activity had really died down by
that late in the day and we didn't see anything new.
Spring at last!
Chris Wiley
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