Hi all, I birded at the Park Preserve on Irish Settlement Road for a few hours this morning with a briefer stop at the Durland Preserve on Ellis Hollow Creek Road. Highlights from Park were a plethora of warblers, including CAPE MAY, BAY-BREASTED, BLACKPOLL, TENNESSEE, WILSON'S, Nashville, Magnolia, Chestnut-sided, Black-throated Blue, Black-throated Green, Yellow-rumped, Black-and-white, Common Yellowthroat, and Ovenbird. Other birds here included a spontaneously calling EASTERN SCREECH-OWL in the spruces, BARRED OWL in the ravine, and one PHILADELPHIA VIREO. Activity had quieted down substantially by 8:30 or so.
Durland Preserve was fairly quiet around 10:00. No sign of the Olive-sided, but I only waited 15 minutes or so. Highlight here were two RED CROSSBILLS (sounded like Type 3, which is what I think the ones I had in my yard last week were as well). They flew over quite low (tree top level) just inside the preserve, heading east (so basically flying along Ellis Hollow Creek Road.) Looks like this may be a good season for Red Crossbills. Ben Barkley reported flyover WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILLS from campus last weekend as well, although I have not heard a follow-up to that report. Finally, a small 2nd or 3rd cycle LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL found yesterday by Kevin McGowan was still present at the Cornell compost facility off Stevenson Road just now. 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/ --
