After reviewing my pictures, I realized that I forgot to mention a couple of birds: two, grunting, Common Mergansers that were circling over the Hawthorn Orchard in the pre-dawn twilight, and I had flushed two Green Herons that had been roosting in the Hawthorn Orchard. The Green Herons had been roosting in the Western middle portion of the Hawthorn Orchard. This is the same location where I suspect the group of Green Herons arose from yesterday. Some crummy shots of some of my sightings from today are at this link (after the White-eyed Vireo):
https://picasaweb.google.com/cth4th/2011HawthornOrchardBirds# Good birding! Sincerely, Chris T-H On May 12, 2011, at 9:57 AM, Chris Tessaglia-Hymes wrote: Since I was up early this morning, I decided to head over to the Hawthorn Orchard earlier than expected. I was there birding from 5:30am until 8:15am. Highlights include: EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, SWAINSON’S THRUSH, BREWSTER’S WARBLER, BLACKPOLL WARBLER, WILSON’S WARBLER, and CANADA WARBLER. Here is the more complete list: 1 EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE (singing constantly from the South knoll area, West of the South ball field) 2 Least Flycatchers 1 Eastern Phoebe 1 Great Crested Flycatcher 3 EASTERN KINGBIRDS (in migration moving ENE, similar in height to the migrating Blue Jays) 2 Warbling Vireos 1 PHILADELPHIA VIREO (heard and then observed singing from the maples at the NE corner of the Hawthorn Orchard) 2-3 Red-eyed Vireos 15+ Blue Jays (a few locals, several in migration) 6-8 House Wrens 1 SWAINSON’S THRUSH (whisper-singing in ravine area to North of Hawthorn Orchard) 1 Wood Thrush (on territory in Western portion of the South knoll area) 15+ Gray Catbirds 12 Cedar Waxwings 1 BLUE-WINGED WARBLER (at NE corner of the South knoll by the streamlet) 1 BREWSTER’S WARBLER (Golden-winged/Blue-winged Hybrid along North edge of Hawthorn Orchard, near the large Oak tree) 3 TENNESSEE WARBLERS (2 early that took flight from a tall willow tree to the ENE, later 1 singing in West portion of the Hawthorn Orchard) 12-15 Nashville Warblers 1 Northern Parula (by Meena in cottonwoods of South knoll area) 10-12 Yellow Warblers 3-4 Chestnut-sided Warblers (also near cottonwoods early, then in NE corner of Hawthorn Orchard) 3+ Magnolia Warblers 4 Yellow-rumped Warblers (in South knoll area early, then flew off to ENE) 1 BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER (in NE area of Hawthorn Orchard) 1 BLACKPOLL WARBLER (in NW area of Hawthorn Orchard) 3-4 American Redstarts 2-3 OVENBIRDS (1 in South knoll area, 2 in Northern section of Hawthorn Orchard) 1 NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH (calling and singing from streamlet by South knoll) 12-15 Common Yellowthroats 1 WILSON’S WARBLER (working West along South hedgerow of maples at NE corner of Hawthorn Orchard) 1 CANADA WARBLER (also working West along South hedgerow of maples, into NE corner of Hawthorn Orchard) 3-4 Scarlet Tanagers (all briefly stopping through as they continued terrestrial migration to ENE) 8-10+ Song Sparrows 4-5 White-throated Sparrows 3 White-crowned Sparrows (in hedgerow at NW corner of South ball field) 8-10 Northern Cardinals 2-3 Rose-breasted Grosbeaks 4-5+ INDIGO BUNTINGS (2 males in NE section of Hawthorn Orchard, the rest as calling flyovers) 2-3 Bobolinks 4-5 Eastern Meadowlarks 4-5 Baltimore Orioles 1 Purple Finch 4-6 American Goldfinches Good birding! Sincerely, Chris T-H -- Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes TARU Product Line Manager and Field Applications Engineer Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850 W: 607-254-2418 M: 607-351-5740 F: 607-254-1132 http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> BirdingOnThe.Net<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes TARU Product Line Manager and Field Applications Engineer Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850 W: 607-254-2418 M: 607-351-5740 F: 607-254-1132 http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp -- 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/ --
