Location: Hammond Hill SF (from parking lot up Yellow Trail 1 to Blue Trail 1 out to road and back to parking lot) Observation date: 5/30/10 (9:10am - 10:30am) Notes: WEATHER: Calm, Sunny, 65. Extremely nice. Lots of warblers and lots of bird activity in general. A great day to be out. OBSERVERS: Chris Wood and Jessie Barry. Number of species: 41
Ruffed Grouse 1 Heard drumming. Turkey Vulture 3 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 **Uncommon and local in summer. Heard calling. Gave three series of calls, each with 5 phrases. Broad-winged Hawk 2 Both seen flying overhead. One adult. One second-year. Red-tailed Hawk 1 juvenile seen in flight. Mourning Dove 1 Black-billed Cuckoo 1 Calling in distance. Heard once. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 3 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 2 Pileated Woodpecker 2 Eastern Wood-Pewee 5 Blue-headed Vireo 2 Red-eyed Vireo (Red-eyed) 15 Exact count. Blue Jay 5 American Crow 3 Black-capped Chickadee 5 Tufted Titmouse 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch 1 Brown Creeper 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet 3 Veery 5 One singing; all others calling. Hermit Thrush 2 One singing; one calling. American Robin 3 Gray Catbird 2 Both singing. Cedar Waxwing 5 Chestnut-sided Warbler 3 Magnolia Warbler 3 Black-throated Blue Warbler 4 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 1 Blackburnian Warbler 7 Bay-breasted Warbler 1 Singing male. Getting late. Just south of where the Yellow Trail 1 comes to the T intersection. Ovenbird 15 Exact count. All singing. Mourning Warbler 4 Common Yellowthroat 4 Hooded Warbler 2 Canada Warbler 5 Perhaps the highlight of the morning. At one point we were near the intersection of three different male territories. We saw two males very close to each other and very agitated. They each had their heads lowered, tail cocked and were singing and calling and chasing each other. Both were stunning with extensive bold black necklaces. Chipping Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 2 White-throated Sparrow 1 *Uncommon here in early summer. First heard calling (chink call) and then seen briefly. Tan individual. Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 10 All adults (at least no young of the year). Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1 Indigo Bunting 2 Bobolink 1 One in the large field about 250 meters from the parking lot. Brown-headed Cowbird 1 Purple Finch (Eastern) 2 Both singing. This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) Chris Wood eBird & Neotropical Birds Project Leader Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York http://ebird.org http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu -- 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/ --
