Yesterday afternoon I stopped by Hammond Hill and was surprised to hear Stuart's Canada Warbler just as I turned off Irish Settlement. I heard at least 2 more Canada Warblers singing along the next stretch of road before the V intersection, and another up Star Stanton a short ways. I also had several more up the gravel section of the road, along with a distant MOURNING WARBLER from the four-way intersection up that hill. Lots of Blackburnians and Magnolia Warblers, too. A BARRED OWL was calling from south of the big parking lot at the top of Hammond Hill.
After quite a long time I gave up on photographing the first Canada by Irish Settlement, as it just wouldn't come out into the open. After some real camera experience, I now think of digiscoping as just a pain. I did manage a brief digiscoping session with the Canada along lower Star Stanton Rd, and one photo can be seen at http://picasaweb.google.com/KevinJ.McGowan/BasinBirds2010#5474937100704723314. I realized I haven't updated my Basin Birds page for a while, and everything there looks pretty wintery and colorless. I will see if I can get some more stuff up soon, but the Canada Warbler and another digiscoped shot of my back porch Scarlet Tanager http://picasaweb.google.com/KevinJ.McGowan/BasinBirds2010#5474937680773018674 should get it started. Best, Kevin ________________________________________ From: bounce-5880053-3493...@list.cornell.edu [bounce-5880053-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Stuart Krasnoff [s...@cornell.edu] Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 4:12 PM To: CayugaBirds Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Canada Warbler low on Hammond Hill; winged warbler singing like Golden-winged at Park Preserve Sorry for the late and lengthy post. The gist of it is there's a Canada Warbler singing very close to Hammond Hill Rd. near Irish Settlement and a winged warbler of indeterminate parentage in the Park Preserve not-seen but-heard singing alot like a Golden-winged. ...I headed up to Hammond Hill and ran into Sandy, Bill, and Lisa Podulka who, along with Lynn Leopold, directed me to a Canada Warbler singing on the brushy slope above the road near the intersection with Irish Settlement Rd. I headed back down to the spot, quickly located the bird by ear, and then persisted for 15 minutes before getting a glimpse of it. A little later I got better views of either the same bird and or a second one ca. 100 yards up the road on the same side. This time the song lacked the distinct chip note before the burst that I'd heard in the earlier bout of singing leading me to think it might be a second bird. ... -- 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/ --
