Today, I lead a Cayuga Bird Club trip at the Hawthorn Orchard. There were about 20 participants, which made for an interesting challenge of getting people to see various birds, but I greatly thank everyone for helping each other out spotting birds that were seen – this was definitely teamwork! I especially want to call out Bob McGuire who stepped in to help out with the other end of the group: thank you, Bob!!
Not all of the species below were seen by everyone in the group; additionally, some were only seen or heard during the early morning scouting with Bob McGuire. Highlight was most certainly the abundance of TENNESSEE WARBLERS (18-20 individuals). This species was seen and heard well by all. The abundance of this species presented an ideal opportunity to demonstrate how to estimate the number of individuals being seen or heard from a single location. By the end of the trip, everyone was confident in the identification of Tennessee Warblers both by sight and sound. There were a total of 15 warbler species seen or heard today. Other notables are in bold, in the list below. Hawthorn Orchard, Tompkins, New York, US May 14, 2016 6:15 AM - 11:45 AM Protocol: Traveling 2.0 mile(s) Comments: Lead a Cayuga Bird Club field trip at this location from 8:00am to 11:30am. Bob McGuire and I birded together from 6:15am until 8:00am. <br />Submitted from eBird for iOS, version 1.2.0 Build 62 68 species (+1 other taxa) Canada Goose 9 Mallard 2 Turkey Vulture 1 Cooper's Hawk 1 Broad-winged Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 3 Killdeer 2 Ring-billed Gull 2 Mourning Dove 3 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1 (heard calling, Northeast corner) Chimney Swift 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 1 American Kestrel 1 Merlin 1 (Flyover, only seen by a few) Least Flycatcher 1 Empidonax sp. 1 (heard “whit” notes only, probably Least) Great Crested Flycatcher 1 Blue-headed Vireo 1 Warbling Vireo 1 Philadelphia Vireo 1 (actively singing and foraging in the mid-Eastern portion) Blue Jay 8 American Crow 2 Barn Swallow 2 Black-capped Chickadee 2 Tufted Titmouse 2 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 House Wren 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Eastern Bluebird 1 Swainson's Thrush 1 (silent forager in Northeast corner) Wood Thrush 3 American Robin 10 Gray Catbird 8 European Starling 4 Cedar Waxwing 9 Blue-winged Warbler 1 Tennessee Warbler 18 (everywhere) Nashville Warbler 2 Common Yellowthroat 3 American Redstart 1 Cape May Warbler 1 (mid-North side) Northern Parula 1 (mid-Eastern edge and North edge) Magnolia Warbler 2 Bay-breasted Warbler 1 (Northeast corner) Yellow Warbler 4 Chestnut-sided Warbler 2 Blackpoll Warbler 1 (mid-East area) Black-throated Blue Warbler 2 (Northeast corner and maple wooded ravine) Yellow-rumped Warbler 2 Wilson's Warbler 1 (along North side) Song Sparrow 2 Scarlet Tanager 2 (Northeast corner) Northern Cardinal 4 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1 Indigo Bunting 2 (flyover and singer in Northeast corner) Bobolink 2 (flyovers) Red-winged Blackbird 5 Eastern Meadowlark 1 Common Grackle 5 Brown-headed Cowbird 3 Baltimore Oriole 5 House Finch 4 Purple Finch 2 (very accommodating pair feeding on berries in maple wooded ravine near Northeast corner) American Goldfinch 4 House Sparrow 8 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S29647017 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org) Please don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions. Good birding! Sincerely, Chris T-H -- 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<tel:607-254-2418> M: 607-351-5740<tel:607-351-5740> F: 607-254-1132<tel: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/ --
