Some more yard birds in my backyard in Northeast Ithaca so far today. The male BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER (still singing) was chasing another warbler, which turned out to be a female BLACKPOLL WARBLER. A few raptors are apparently migrating over -- a subadult BROAD-WINGED HAWK and a high circling female AMERICAN KESTREL which I wouldn't have seen if I wasn't watching the Broad-wing; then a ratty immature RED-TAILED HAWK, and then 2 TURKEY VULTURES flying high in straight line to the north. A SWAINSON'S THRUSH was singing in the yard at 2 PM.
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