My dad, Bob Anderson (Hi, Dad!), and I birded the Hawthorns from 9 - 12. After leaving the Oxley parking lot, and heading towards towards the NW corner, we got a YELLOW WARBLER. Then, we heard some birds and went down off the bank into the woods. After finding the singing TENNESSEE, dad found a WILSON'S and MAGNOLIA which I also viewed. After that, it seemed that every where we turned, there was a Tennessee or magnolia. I think we stayed there for about half an hour, just because of the sheer number of birds. We left that spot and headed to the outside of the corner near the softball field, but other than a singing yellow warbler, there was not much going on. We followed some more song and found more Tennessees and more magnolias in a different spot. From there, we followed deer trails and stopped whenever we heard or saw anything. It seemed like Tennesses and magnolias were all over the place. I had an INDIGO BUNTING, which dad missed. We also found a BLUE-WINGED and then tried to find our way to the East Hill Recreation Way. This was an excellent plan as we stumbled into a nice group of warblers: another blue winged, BAY-BREASTED, BLACK POLL, CANADA (super view), and CHESTNUT SIDED. We found the EHRW, and made our way back to Oxley by the pond near the rugby field. In the field near what used to be a pond, Dad pished out a pair of COMMON YELLOWTHROATS.
I stopped at the Game Farm Rd. end of EHRW and saw a REDSTART. While it was an excellent birding day, I am a bit sad because the blackpolls mean that the end of an absolutely super migration is coming. Karen ________________________________ From: bounce-115624042-25410...@list.cornell.edu <bounce-115624042-25410...@list.cornell.edu> on behalf of bob mcguire <bmcgu...@clarityconnect.com> Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2014 12:41 PM To: Meena Madhav Haribal Cc: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Hawthorn Orchard 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<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/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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/>! -- -- 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/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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/>! -- -- 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/ --
