A quick jaunt around the Wilson Trail just now produced two new birds for me: A WOOD THRUSH silently foraging under bushes near the footbridge, and a vibrant male BLUE-WINGED WARBLER foraging in dead leaf clusters over the stream next to the footbridge. A BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER was very obvious along the trail as well.
-Jay On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Mark Chao <[email protected]> wrote: > I walked every trail on the east side of Sapsucker Woods on Friday > morning, then walked home to northeast Ithaca via the Wilson and West > Trails. I thought that the birding was excellent throughout. Here are > some highlights. > > > > * silent male BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER at the north end of the Woodleton > Boardwalk > > * silent male MAGNOLIA WARBLER in the same vicinity > > * singing BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER near the long pool with the shelter, > East Trail > > * 7+ BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLERS all along the East Trail > > * many YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS everywhere > > * 4+ NORTHERN WATERTHRUSHES along the Woodleton Boardwalk, one singing > with the “Woodleton accent” distinguished by three emphatic notes at the > end – I almost always hear this song structure here, but almost never > elsewhere > > * one silent bright NASHVILLE WARBLER foraging at and just above ground > level surprisingly deep in the woods along the Wilson Trail between the > West and Severinghaus intersections (sighting shared with Annie Wexler and > Tony Gaenslen) > > * one OVENBIRD heard along East Trail (technically out of the sanctuary, > in woods near the green Lucente building) > > * LEAST FLYCATCHER at the Sherwood Platform > > * silent HERMIT THRUSH along this same stretch of the Wilson Trail – my > first of the spring in the sanctuary, despite a few attempts > > * FIELD SPARROW and EASTERN TOWHEE heard in the power-line corridor on the > Dryden side > > * PURPLE FINCH heard singing by the pond near 91 Sapsucker Woods Road > > * GRAY CATBIRD seen and heard by this pond > > * a brilliant GREEN HERON perching by this same pond and bobbing its tiny > tail in agitation at my presence > > * two SHARP-SHINNED HAWKS – one migrant and one tiny male perching in the > woods on the east side (at first glance at this bird’s silhouette, I > thought it might be a grackle, then I concluded it was too small) > > ** two BROAD-WINGED HAWKS – one bird molting its primaries, and one very > interesting bird whose body and wing linings were distinctly darker than > the flight feathers. I couldn’t pick up much color nor determine the exact > degree of contrast against the gray sky, but I could not turn this bird > into a normal light-morph in about a minute of viewing. I think it could > have been a dark-morph, or if such a thing exists, something intermediate > between light and dark. (I feel certain that this was not a Red-shouldered > Hawk, harrier, or other possible species with vaguely consistent plumage – > the bird I saw had an obvious single broad white tail band.) > > > > Mark Chao > > > > > ------------------------------ > <http://www.avast.com/> > > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! > Antivirus<http://www.avast.com/>protection is active. > > -- > *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/[email protected]/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/>!* > -- > -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology [email protected] -- 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/[email protected]/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/ --
