Susan Danskin and I had a similar experience in the Hawthorns this morning. When we walked in along the north trail, everything was quiet (except for the ever-present Catbirds). All of a sudden we began to hear TENNESSEE WARBLERS from some 100' south of the trail. When we got to them, we found ourselves under a vocal feeding flock that included at least 5 Tennessees, single CHESTNUT-SIDED and MAGNOLIA WARBLERS, both male and female BAY-BREASTED WARBLERS, 2 BLACKPOLLS and a Warbling Vireo. We tracked them for about 15 minutes until they all fell silent together and, seemingly, disappeared. We spent the next 15 minutes trying to re-find them and finally worked our way back to the north trail. Whereupon we began hearing the Tennessees again, went back into the jungle, and again hit the same flock.
After following the flock for another 10 minutes, we headed back out, on the way encountering a singing CANADA WARBLER. Meanwhile Susan picked out a distant perched MERLIN across the creek in the cemetery. It called once as we were making our way out. Bob McGuire On May 18, 2014, at 10:45 AM, Meena Madhav Haribal wrote: > Hi all, > Today I spent a couple of hours at Hawthorn in the morning. Mostly it was > quiet except for the singing Tennessee warblers. > My counts were as follows; > Through out the orchard at various locations Tennessee at 7 > > Most of the other warblers I found in an oak tree near the North west corner. > It was very hard to see them as they were hiding in the oak leaves. At one > point everyone was quiet without movement for 10 minutes at least. I was > wondering where they went as nobody was flitting. After waiting some time > they became active again. May be there was a predator at that point. > > Bay Breasted Warbler (1 male and 1 female) > Cape May Warbler (1 female) > Black-throated Green (1 male and 1 female) > Philadelphia Vireo (2) > Red-eyed Vireo (several) > There were many more warblers but could not get definite ID, one looked like > a female Yellow-rumped but could have been a female Cape May as I never got > wing pattern detail. > > Later I also found a singing Magnolia and a silent female/ or young Redstart. > There were several Yellow Warblers and Common Yellowthroat. > Other common birds but unusual birds were scarce. > > Meena > > > Meena Haribal > Ithaca NY 14850 > 42.429007,-76.47111 > http://haribal.org/ > http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ > > > -- > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > BirdingOnThe.Net > Please submit your observations to eBird! > -- -- 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/ --
