Hi all, Highlights at Stewart Park around 8:00-8:45 this morning included 8 COMMON TERNS on a log near the red lighthouse, 1 CLIFF SWALLOW with the dozens of (mostly Barn) swallows way offshore, and a Western PALM WARBLER singing in the willows along the shore near the tennis courts. No sign of either Cerulean or Yellow-throated in Renwick Fuertes, but it was raining pretty steadily at that point. Still, redstarts and Yellow-throated Vireos were singing.
Livia and I checked Stewart Park again around 12:15 today and found even more terns--8 COMMON TERNS on the driftwood just offshore of the eastern tennis courts (just west of the dock) and another 6+ COMMON TERNS flying around over the water. The highlight for me a was a beautiful male PRAIRIE WARBLER singing sporadically and foraging in the willows along the shore by the tennis courts with PALM and YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS. This is only the second eBird record for Stewart Park, the only other one being from the same day in 2007. Here at the Lab, two WILSON'S WARBLERS and two NORTHERN PARULAS were the only birds of note on the Wilson Trail. A lot of CAPE MAY WARBLERS have been seen by various students on the Cornell Campus recently, especially in spruces around north campus. It was raining pretty steadily, but last night I was able to find a male foraging in a spruce along the eastern end of Wait Avenue just south of the Triphammer intersection. Good birding, -Jay -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology jw...@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/ --
