I'm sorry for not posting the details on this bird earlier, but yesterday during the Ithaca CBC, I found a fairly bright ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER in the Community Garden south of Farmer's Market in Ithaca. I flushed it initially with a flock of juncos from the south end of the garden on the east side of the entrance road -- the garden still is (was) pretty green with vegetable leaves and weeds. The bird sat up in the brush pile just south of the garden boundary, and then flew off to the south. Later in the afternoon, Tim Lenz relocated the warbler along the weedy edge of the field to the south of the garden, closer to the CITGO station.
This was a first record for the long-running Ithaca CBC, but exactly the kind of bird I was hoping to find with the lingering warm weather and greenery. Good luck to anyone hoping to re-find this bird, especially as the first cold blast of winter weather is approaching.... KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edu -- 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/ --
