[cayugabirds-l] Tuesday morning birds
The Park Preserve was cold and quiet this morning, but I found a couple of pockets of birds. The first corner/overlook area was productive as always, with at least four HERMIT THRUSHES (present every time I have been there since the summer) and a beautiful SWAINSON'S THRUSH giving flight calls. At the other end of the preserve, essentially the northwest corner, I found a flock of warblers that included Blackpoll, Black-throated Green, Magnolia, and a late PRAIRIE WARBLER (the latest for Tompkins County in eBird, as far as I can tell). A quick walk around the Wilson Trail at Sapsucker Woods yielded large numbers of TENNESSEE WARBLERS, most in splendid color with beautiful green upperparts and yellow underparts, as well as several Nashville and Magnolia warblers. At the Sherwood Platform, a WINTER WREN that has been hanging around there for several days put on a great show, singing softly for a while and then walking out onto the bench for good looks. A Ruby-crowned Kinglet sang a few times too, and several White-throated Sparrows were also present. -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology jw...@cornell.edu -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Tuesday morning birds
Lots of BONAPARTE'S GULLS were around this morning, including 5 on Dryden Lake, 6 at George Road, and ~25 scattered individuals moving north up the lake from Myers Point at 8-8:30. Also at Myers Point I saw at least two BANK SWALLOWS among the many Tree, Barn, and Norther Rough-winged, and a CASPIAN TERN on the other side of the lake. I also heard a YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER at Dryden Lake and saw four HORNED GREBES and 12 Red-breasted Mergansers. I heard Chipping Sparrows at many locations along the way. On Drake Road I had a singing FOX SPARROW, EASTERN TOWHEE, and RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET. Fox Sparrow, American Tree Sparrow, Brown Creeper, and Winter Wren were singing in our yard on Beam Hill this morning. Finally, thanks to a tip from a student on the CornellRBA that I set up a couple of months ago, I saw a female RED-BREASTED MERGANSER with a couple of Commons on Beebe Lake at Cornell, and a PINE WARBLER was singing from Comstock Knoll. Jay McGowan Dryden, NY -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
