Hi all, Today I lead a trip for the participants of NYSOA group. There were about 12 people in the group. First we stopped at the second parking lot of the arboretum on the west road. We saw a couple of warblers fall down from the sky but they disappeared into the trees. Next stop was at the pine and spruce grove on the top of the ridge. Here we hit warblers coming form nowhere into spruce and pine trees. We spent most of the time here as it was perfect location with lots of fruiting trees and vines.
Here are the list of the migrants we encountered: Black-throated Blues 2 Yellow-rumped warblers 2 (only seen by me, there could have been more but they were too fast) Black-throated Greens (at least three ) Magnolia (many) Chestnut-sided (at least three) Prairie (One a non breeding plumaged male) Common Yellow-throat Nashvilles Rose -breasted Grosbeak Scarlet Tanager In the goldenrods, I think what I saw was an Orange-crowned warbler. We also heard a trilling song twice, which I think was of Orange-crowned, but Dominic who also heard the song was initially tending towards it but was not sure of it as we saw some Chipping Sparrows later. A beautiful Brown Thrasher in full view, and everyone got to see the bird very nicely. Lots of Robins young and old, Cedar waxwings, Starlings were enjoying the fruits. I think over all it was a great spot we spent two + hours. Then we had usual other birds and overall the group saw 40+ species! It was nice day! Initially I was worried that we are not going to see any birds at all! Cheers Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 42.429007,-76.47111 http://www.haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ Ithaca area moths: https://plus.google.com/118047473426099383469/posts Dragonfly book sample pages: http://www.haribal.org/dragonflies/samplebook.pdf -- 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/ --
