Good morning! I stopped by the Hawthorn Orchard this morning a tad later than yesterday.
Ran into Nancy, Holly and Tom, and Jackie and Phil. Dynamic, relatively quiet, got quieter as the sun got higher and the heat began to intensify. Northeast corner around maple treetops seemed most active. As noted in my comment below, the hawthorn flowers are about to pop, which is probably the earliest I’ve ever observed. As a result, this could make for some very interesting birding there in the coming week or two, as food resources intensify. We could use some rain, though. Best birds were the CAPE MAY WARBLERS (early, there were two adult males in the top of the maple at the NE corner, which flew to the South; later, there were two adult males and a female which flew from the NE corner black walnut tree (?) into the maple treetops (in a South to Northeast direction) then all took flight and headed East toward East Hill Plaza), 1 NORTHERN PARULA (foraging in the Northeast corner), the 2 MERLINS in the spruces and white pines across Mitchell Street from the Hawthorn Orchard (perched and calling), and a single flyover COMMON LOON (for some reason, I always enjoy seeing high migrating Common Loons, with their distinctively direct and rubbery-winged flight). Good birding! Sincerely, Chris T-H Hawthorn Orchard, Tompkins, US-NY May 8, 2015 8:15 AM - 9:29 AM Protocol: Traveling 1.0 mile(s) Comments: Hawthorns flowers about to pop. Near unprecedentedly early. 85-90 degrees today. <br />Submitted from BirdLog NA for iOS, version 1.8 45 species Common Loon 1 Turkey Vulture 2 Killdeer 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker 1 Merlin 2 Warbling Vireo 1 Red-eyed Vireo 1 Blue Jay 19 American Crow 2 Barn Swallow 1 Black-capped Chickadee 5 Tufted Titmouse 2 House Wren 1 Wood Thrush 2 American Robin 5 Gray Catbird 8 Brown Thrasher 1 European Starling 6 Cedar Waxwing 1 Nashville Warbler 3 Common Yellowthroat 3 American Redstart 1 Cape May Warbler 3 2 ad males, 1 female Northern Parula 1 Yellow Warbler 3 Chestnut-sided Warbler 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Chipping Sparrow 2 Song Sparrow 5 White-throated Sparrow 2 Scarlet Tanager 1 Northern Cardinal 2 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1 Indigo Bunting 1 Bobolink 1 Red-winged Blackbird 6 Eastern Meadowlark 1 Common Grackle 3 Brown-headed Cowbird 3 Baltimore Oriole 1 House Finch 2 American Goldfinch 4 House Sparrow 3 -- Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes Field Applications Engineer Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850 W: 607-254-2418 M: 607-351-5740 F: 607-254-1132 http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp -- 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/ --
